Proteus mirabilis interkingdom swarming signals attract blow flies

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1356-1366

  Ma, Qun ^a   Fonseca, Alicia ^b   Liu, Wenqi ^b   Fields, Andrew T ^b   Pimsler, Meaghan L ^b   Spindola, Aline F ^c   Tarone, Aaron M ^b   Crippen, Tawni L ^a   Tomberlin, Jeffery K ^b   Wood, Thomas K ^a  

^a SOUTHERN PLAINS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Agronomy   (Brazil)

Author keywords

bacterial swarming; interkingdom signal; Lucilia sericata; Proteus mirabilis; quorum sensing; salivary gland

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; FLY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MUTATION; ODOR; SALIVA; SIGNAL; SWARMING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMOTAXIS; DIPTERA; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; SALIVARY GLAND; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; DIPTERA; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS; OVIPOSITION; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; SALIVARY GLANDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALLIPHORIDAE; LUCILIA SERICATA; MIRABILIS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

EID: 84862809164     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.210     Document Type: Article

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