Nitrogen-Fixing and Uricolytic Bacteria Associated with the Gut of Dendroctonus rhizophagus and Dendroctonus valens (Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 200-210

  Morales Jiménez, Jesús ^a,b   Vera Ponce de León, Arturo ^a   García Domínguez, Aidé ^a   Martínez Romero, Esperanza ^c   Zúñiga, Gerardo ^a   Hernández Rodríguez, César ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE SISTEMAS BIOLÓGICOS   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DENDROCTONUS; DENDROCTONUS RHIZOPHAGUS; DENDROCTONUS VALENS; HEXAPODA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RAHNELLA AQUATILIS; RAOULTELLA TERRIGENA; SCOLYTINAE; SERRATIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE;

ANIMAL; BACTERIA; BEETLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BEETLES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LARVA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84878766099     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-013-0206-3     Document Type: Article

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