Refining the roots of the beewolf-streptomyces symbiosis: Antennal symbionts in the rare genus Philanthinus (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 822-827

  Kaltenpoth, Martin ^a   Yildirim, Erol ^b   Gürbüz, M Faruk ^c   Herzner, Gudrun ^d   Strohm, Erhard ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; HISTOLOGICAL SECTION; HORIZONTAL TRANSFER; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOGENIC FUNGI; STREPTOMYCETES; SYMBIOTIC ASSOCIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION;

CALCIUM; FUNGI; GENES; RNA;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANTENNA; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; COCOON; FUNGUS; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOGEN; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; WASP;

ANIMAL; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HYMENOPTERA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES; SYMBIOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HYMENOPTERA; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOMYCES; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRABRONIDAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; MEGASCOLIA FLAVIFRONS; PHILANTHINI; PHILANTHUS; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCINEAE; TRACHYPUS;

EID: 84856151424     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06809-11     Document Type: Article

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