Tracing horizontal Wolbachia movements among bees (Anthophila): A combined approach using multilocus sequence typing data and host phylogeny

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 6149-6162

  Gerth, Michael ^a   Röthe, Juliane ^a   Bleidorn, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

bees (Anthophila); codivergence; horizontal transfer; multilocus sequence typing; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); WOLBACHIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEE; BEES (ANTHOPHILA); BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CODIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL TRANSFER; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

BEES (ANTHOPHILA); CODIVERGENCE; HORIZONTAL TRANSFER; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BEES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84890124295     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12549     Document Type: Article

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