Characterization of an intergenic polymorphic site (pp-hC1A_5) in Wolbachia pipientis (wPip)

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 753-756

  Petridis, Michael ^a   Chatzidimitriou, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

C. pipiens; Intergenic region; Polymorphism; Tandem repeats; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULEX; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULEX; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WOLBACHIA;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULEX PIPIENS; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

EID: 79959280296     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.02991.x     Document Type: Article

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