Spiroplasma as a model insect endosymbiont

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 144-153

  Anbutsu, Hisashi ^a   Fukatsu, Takema ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MOLLICUTES; SPIROPLASMA;

EID: 79954602882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00240.x     Document Type: Review

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