A Veritable Menagerie of Heritable Bacteria from Ants, Butterflies, and Beyond: Broad Molecular Surveys and a Systematic Review

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Russell, Jacob A ^a   Funaro, Colin F ^a,d   Giraldo, Ysabel M ^b,e   Goldman Huertas, Benjamin ^b,f   Suh, David ^a,g   Kronauer, Daniel J C ^b,h   Moreau, Corrie S ^c   Pierce, Naomi E ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Boston University   (United States)

^f University of Arizona   (United States)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^h ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARSENOPHONUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BUTTERFLY; CARDINIUM HERTIGII; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HAMILTONELLA DEFENSA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MIXED INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPHALIDAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIROPLASMA; STEM TAXON; SYMBIONT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BUTTERFLIES; HOST SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY;

ARSENOPHONUS; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS CARDINIUM; CANDIDATUS CARDINIUM HERTIGII; CANDIDATUS HAMILTONELLA DEFENSA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; SPIROPLASMA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84871406396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051027     Document Type: Article

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