Microbial communities and symbionts in the hard tick Haemaphysalis longicornis (Acari: Ixodidae) from north China

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Li Meng ^a   Liu, Jian Nan ^a   Liu, Zhao ^a   Yu, Zhi Jun ^a   Xu, Shi Qi ^a   Yang, Xiao Hong ^a   Li, Tuo ^a   Li, Si Si ^a,c   Guo, Li Da ^b   Liu, Jing Ze ^a  

^a HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Hebei College of Industry and Technology   (China)

^c HENGSHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arsenophonus like symbiont; Coxiella like symbiont; Haemaphysalis longicornis; Microbial communities; Rickettsia like symbiont

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; INFECTION; MALE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHIPICEPHALUS; RICKETTSIA; SYMBIONT; TAXON; TICK; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ACARI; ARSENOPHONUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; RICKETTSIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOTA; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COXIELLA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; IXODIDAE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84886122730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-310     Document Type: Article

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