Bacterial Diversity in Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis geminata Ant Colonies Characterized by 16S amplicon 454 Pyrosequencing

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 821-831

  Ishak, Heather D ^a   Plowes, Rob ^b   Sen, Ruchira ^a   Kellner, Katrin ^a   Meyer, Eli ^a   Estrada, Dora A ^b   Dowd, Scot E ^c   Mueller, Ulrich G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c Medical Biofilm Research Institute Lubbock   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; LACTOCOCCUS; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; SPIROPLASMA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 79957465837     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-010-9793-4     Document Type: Article

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