Can't Take the Heat: High Temperature Depletes Bacterial Endosymbionts of Ants

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 727-733

  Fan, Yongliang ^a   Wernegreen, Jennifer J ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPONOTINI; CAMPONOTUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENDOPHYTE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; HEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ENDOPHYTES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HOT TEMPERATURE; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84884414021     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-013-0264-6     Document Type: Article

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