Specificity between lactobacilli and hymenopteran hosts is the exception rather than the rule

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1803-1812

  McFrederick, Quinn S ^a   Cannone, Jamie J ^a   Gutell, Robin R ^a   Kellner, Katrin ^a   Plowes, Robert M ^b   Mueller, Ulrich G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; 16S RRNA GENE; 16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; 454-PYROSEQUENCING; BUMBLE BEE; COLONY SIZE; FOOD FERMENTATION; HONEY BEE; HUMAN HEALTH; HYMENOPTERA; MICROBIOTAS; PARTNER CHOICE; PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTION; PROBIOTICS; STRUCTURAL MODELS;

FOOD PRODUCTS; MODEL STRUCTURES; RNA;

BACILLI;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANT; BACTERIUM; BEE; COLONY; FERMENTATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; INHIBITION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PROBIOTICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECONSTRUCTION; WASP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; HYMENOPTERA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; HYMENOPTERA; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84874813177     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03681-12     Document Type: Article

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