"Candidatus Defluviella procrastinata" and "Candidatus Cyrtobacter zanobii", Two Novel Ciliate Endosymbionts Belonging to the "Midichloria Clade"

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 302-310

  Boscaro, Vittorio ^a   Petroni, Giulio ^a   Ristori, Alessandro ^a   Verni, Franco ^a   Vannini, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES AEDICULATUS; METAZOA; MYXOZOA; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM NEPHRIDIATUM; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 84873524043     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0170-3     Document Type: Article

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