Insight into the Transmission Biology and Species-Specific Functional Capabilities of Tsetse (Diptera: Glossinidae) Obligate Symbiont Wigglesworthia

mBio

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-13

  Rio, Rita V M ^a   Symula, Rebecca E ^b   Wang, Jingwen ^b   Lohs, Claudia ^b,f   Wu, Yi neng ^b   Snyder, Anna K ^a   Bjornson, Robert D ^c   Oshima, Kenshiro ^d   Biehl, Bryan S ^e   Perna, Nicole T ^e   Hattori, Masahira ^d   Aksoy, Serap ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORISMIC ACID; FOLIC ACID; PHENYLALANINE; BACTERIAL DNA;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLOSSINA MORSITANS; GLOSSINIA BREVIPALPIS; GLOSSINIA RADIATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIONT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TSETSE FLY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WIGGLESWORTHIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; INHERITANCE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; SYMBIOSIS; SYNTENY;

DIPTERA; GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINA BREVIPALPIS; GLOSSINA MORSITANS MORSITANS; GLOSSINIDAE; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHORISMIC ACID; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLAGELLA; FOLIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, INSECT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENYLALANINE; PLASMIDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; SYNTENY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TSETSE FLIES; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

EID: 84863278416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00240-11     Document Type: Article

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