New insights into the evolution of Wolbachia infections in filarial nematodes inferred from a large range of screened species

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Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Ferri, Emanuele ^a   Bain, Odile ^b   Barbuto, Michela ^a   Martin, Coralie ^b   Lo, Nathan ^c   Uni, Shigehiko ^d   Landmann, Frederic ^e   Baccei, Sara G ^a   Guerrero, Ricardo ^f   de Souza Lima, Sueli ^g   Bandi, Claudio ^h   Wanji, Samuel ⁱ   Diagne, Moustapha ^j   Casiraghi, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

ⁱ Research Foundation in Tropical Diseases and Environment   (Cameroon)

^j UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CERCOPITHIFILARIA JAPONICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FILARIA; FILARIOIDEA; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE CELL; MANSONELLA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONANEMA MARTINI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSWALDOFILARIINAE; PHYLOGENY; SCREENING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLENDIDOFILARINAE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WALTONELLINAE; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; CERCOPITHIFILARIA; ENDOBACTERIA; FILARIA; JAPONICA; MAMMALIA; MANSONELLA; MYA; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCIDAE; SAURIA; WOLBACHIA;

PROPIDIUM IODIDE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; FILARIOIDEA; FLUORESCENCE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPIDIUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 79959441925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020843     Document Type: Article

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