Chaos of Wolbachia Sequences Inside the Compact Fig Syconia of Ficus benjamina (Ficus: Moraceae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Yang, Chun Yan ^a   Xiao, Jin Hua ^b   Niu, Li Ming ^b,c   Ma, Guang Chang ^c   Cook, James M ^d,e   Bian, Sheng Nan ^a   Fu, Yue Guan ^c   Huang, Da Wei ^a,b  

^a SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^e WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WOLBACHIA SURFACE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FICUS; FICUS BENJAMINA; FIG; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WASP; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA SURFACE PROTEIN GENE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; FEMALE; FICUS; GENOTYPE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; WASPS; WOLBACHIA;

AGAONIDAE; ARTHROPODA; CHALCIDOIDEA; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); FICUS BENJAMINA; HEXAPODA; MORACEAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84869028808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048882     Document Type: Article

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