Detection and characterization of Wolbachia infections in laboratory and natural populations of different species of tsetse flies (genus Glossina)

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  Doudoumis, Vangelis ^a,h   Tsiamis, George ^a,h   Wamwiri, Florence ^b,e   Brelsfoard, Corey ^b,c   Alam, Uzma ^b   Aksoy, Emre ^b   Dalaperas, Stelios ^a,h   Abd Alla, Adly ^d   Ouma, Johnson ^e   Takac, Peter ^f   Aksoy, Serap ^b   Bourtzis, Kostas ^a,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^e KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^f INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^g BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

^h University of Western Greece   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; GENE TRANSFER; GLOSSINA AUSTENI; GLOSSINA BREVIPALPIS; GLOSSINA FUSCIPES FUSCIPES; GLOSSINA MORSITANS CENTRALIS; GLOSSINA MORSITANS MORSITANS; GLOSSINA PALLIDIPES; GLOSSINA PALPALIS GAMBIENSIS; GLOSSINA TACHINOIDES; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; TSETSE FLY; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GLOSSINIDAE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INSECT GENOME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINA AUSTENI; GLOSSINA BREVIPALPIS; GLOSSINA FUSCIPES FUSCIPES; GLOSSINA MORSITANS CENTRALIS; GLOSSINA MORSITANS MORSITANS; GLOSSINA PALLIDIPES; GLOSSINA PALPALIS GAMBIENSIS; GLOSSINA TACHINOIDES; NEMATODA; PROTEOBACTERIA; WOLBACHIA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TSETSE FLIES; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84856011341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-S1-S3     Document Type: Article

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