Characterization of a newly discovered symbiont of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 569-575

  Bing, Xiao Li ^a   Yang, Jiao ^a   Fein, Einat Zchori ^b   Wang, Xiao Wei ^a   Liu, Shu Sheng ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; COMPLEX INTERACTION; CRYPTIC SPECIES; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HEMIPTERA; HUMAN PATHOGENS; INFECTION RATES; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PROTEOBACTERIA; QUANTITATIVE PCR; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

BACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

FISH;

BACTERIAL DNA; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; CROP PEST; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; HYBRIDIZATION; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WHITEFLY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; HEMIPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

CHINA;

ALEYRODIDAE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEMISIA TABACI; CANDIDATUS PORTIERA ALEYRODIDARUM; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; ORIENTIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84871887600     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03030-12     Document Type: Article

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