Tsetse-Wolbachia symbiosis: Comes of age and has great potential for pest and disease control

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 112, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Doudoumis, Vangelis ^a   Alam, Uzma ^b   Aksoy, Emre ^b   Abd Alla, Adly M M ^c   Tsiamis, George ^a   Brelsfoard, Corey ^b,d   Aksoy, Serap ^b   Bourtzis, Kostas ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^e Institute of Molecular Oncology   (Greece)

Author keywords

Glossina; Insect symbiosis; Paratransgenesis; Sodalis; Wigglesworthia; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; GENETICS; GLOSSINIDAE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPTERA; EUKARYOTA; GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINA MORSITANS; GLOSSINA MORSITANS MORSITANS; GLOSSINIDAE; HEXAPODA; SODALIS; SODALIS GLOSSINIDIUS; TRYPANOSOMA; WIGGLESWORTHIA; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

EID: 84875806220     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2012.05.010     Document Type: Review

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