Microsatellite genotyping reveals diversity within populations of Sodalis glossinidius, the secondary symbiont of tsetse flies

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 207-210

  Farikou, Oumarou ^a,b   Njiokou, Flobert ^b   Cuny, Gérard ^a   Geiger, Anne ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Genotyping; Microsatellites; Nagana; Sleeping sickness; Sodalis glossinidius; Symbiont; Tsetse fly

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SODALIS GLOSSINIDIUS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BURKINA FASO; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS; TSETSE FLIES;

ANIMALIA; GLOSSINA (GENUS); SODALIS GLOSSINIDIUS;

EID: 79954618635     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2011.01.021     Document Type: Article

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