Wolbachia endobacteria in a natural population of Culex quinquefasciatus from filariasis endemic villages of south India and its phylogenetic implication

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 569-576

  Sunish, I P ^a   Rajendran, R ^a   Paramasivan, R ^a   Dhananjeyan, K J ^a   Tyagi, B K ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CULEX; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CULEX; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84855385311     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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