Extended starvation reduced and eliminated Wolbachia, but not Cardinium, from Metaseiulus occidentalis females (Acari: Phytoseiidae): A need to reassess Wolbachia's status in this predatory mite?

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-26

  Wu, Ke ^a   Hoy, Marjorie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardinium; Metaseiulus occidentalis; Quantitative PCR; Starvation; Surface decontamination; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTEROIDETES; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MITE; OOCYTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STARVATION; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTEROIDETES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MITES; OVUM; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STARVATION; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS CARDINIUM; METASEIULUS OCCIDENTALIS; PHYTOSEIIDAE; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84855203084     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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