Composition and seasonal variation of Rhipicephalus turanicus and Rhipicephalus sanguineus bacterial communities

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4110-4116

  Lalzar, Itai ^a   Harrus, Shimon ^a   Mumcuoglu, Kosta Y ^b   Gottlieb, Yuval ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; 454-PYROSEQUENCING; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; BACTERIAL POPULATION; CONTROL MECHANISM; DIAGNOSTIC PCR; QUANTITATIVE PCR; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

GENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODIUM; RNA;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ADULT; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LARVA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; SEASON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA; COXIELLA SP.; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA SP.;

EID: 84864087169     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00323-12     Document Type: Article

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