Detection of Wolbachia in the tick Ixodes ricinus is due to the presence of the hymenoptera endoparasitoid Ixodiphagus hookeri

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Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Plantard, Olivier ^a,b   Bouju Albert, Agnès ^a,b   Malard, Marie Astrid ^a,b   Hermouet, Axelle ^a,b   Capron, Gilles ^c   Verheyden, Hélène ^d  

^a Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in Animal Health   (France)

^b LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPARASITE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIPHAGUS HOOKERI; MICROBIOME; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; PARASITISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYMENOPTERA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TICK INFESTATION; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHALCIDOIDEA; ENCYRTIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIPHAGUS HOOKERI; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; WSP PROTEIN, WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HYMENOPTERA; IXODES; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; TICK INFESTATIONS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84856298549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030692     Document Type: Article

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