Detection and characterization of Wolbachia infections in natural populations of Aphids: Is the hidden diversity fully unraveled?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Augustinos, Antonis A ^a,i   Santos Garcia, Diego ^b   Dionyssopoulou, Eva ^a,i   Moreira, Marta ^c   Papapanagiotou, Aristeidis ^d   Scarvelakis, Marios ^a   Doudoumis, Vangelis ^a,i   Ramos, Silvia ^b   Aguiar, Antonio F ^e   Borges, Paulo A V ^f   Khadem, Manhaz ^c   Latorre, Amparo ^b,g   Tsiamis, George ^a,i   Bourtzis, Kostas ^a,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

^d TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^e Laboratório de Qualidade Agricola Entomologia   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^g Centro Superior de Investigacion en Salud Publica CSISP   (Spain)

^h BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

ⁱ University of Western Greece   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S; RIBOSOME DNA;

APHID; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; NONHUMAN; RICKETTSIOSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; WOLBACHIA; ALLELE; ANIMAL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; APHIDS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 83255175540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028695     Document Type: Article

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