Horizontal transmission of the microbial symbionts Enterobacter cloacae and Mycotypha microspora to their firebrat host

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 160-166

  Woodbury, Nathan ^a   Moore, Margo ^a   Gries, Gerhard ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Bacterium; Fungus; Lepismatidae; Thermobia domestica; Thysanura; Transovarial transmission; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CONSPECIFIC; DISPERSION; FUNGUS; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION; INSECT; SIGNALING; SYMBIONT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FUNGI; LEPISMATIDAE; MICROSPORIDIA; MUCORALES; MYCOTYPHA MICROSPORA; THERMOBIA DOMESTICA; THYSANURA;

EID: 84876176348     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eea.12057     Document Type: Article

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