Investigation of the bacterial communities associated with females of Lutzomyia sand fly species from South America

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Sant'Anna, Mauricio R V ^a   Darby, Alistair C ^b   Brazil, Reginaldo P ^c   Montoya Lerma, James ^d   Dillon, Viv M ^b   Bates, Paul A ^a   Dillon, Rod J ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ERWINIA; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LUTZOMYIA; LUTZOMYIA CRUZI; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RALSTONIA; RNA SEQUENCE; SOUTH AMERICA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WILD SPECIES;

AGING; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA SP.; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; RALSTONIA SP.;

EID: 84864566658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042531     Document Type: Article

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