"Candidatus Hepatoplasma crinochetorum," a new, stalk-forming lineage of Mollicutes colonizing the midgut glands of a terrestrial isopod

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 6166-6172

  Wang, Yongjie ^a   Stingl, Ulrich ^b   Anton Erxleben, Friederike ^a   Geisler, Sabine ^a   Brune, Andreas ^b,c   Zimmer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; RNA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CELL DIVISION; CELL WALLS; GENE SEQUENCES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES;

BACTERIA;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; ISOPOD;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BRUSH BORDER; CANDIDATUS HEPATOPLASMA CRINOCHETORUM; CELL DIVISION; CYTOPLASM; ENTOMOPLASMATALES; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEPATOPANCREAS; ISOPODA; LAND BIOME; MICROVILLUS; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMATALES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIONT; TAXON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; ISOPODA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMATACEAE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRUSTACEA; ENTOMOPLASMATALES; ISOPODA; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMATALES; PORCELLIO; PORCELLIO SCABER; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 8144222967     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.10.6166-6172.2004     Document Type: Article

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