Evidence for Horizontal Transmission of Secondary Endosymbionts in the Bemisia tabaci Cryptic Species Complex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ahmed, Muhammad Z ^a,b   de Barro, Paul J ^c   Ren, Shun Xiang ^a   Greeff, Jaco M ^b   Qiu, Bao Li ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENOPHONUS; ARTICLE; CARDINIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PORTIERA ALEYRODIDARUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SWEET POTATO WHITEFLY; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HEMIPTERA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ALEYRODIDAE; ARSENOPHONUS; BEMISIA TABACI; CANDIDATUS CARDINIUM; CANDIDATUS PORTIERA ALEYRODIDARUM; HEMIPTERA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84872042777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053084     Document Type: Article

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