Uncovering Wolbachia diversity upon artificial host transfer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Schneider, Daniela I ^a   Riegler, Markus ^b   Arthofer, Wolfgang ^c   Merçot, Hervé ^d   Stauffer, Christian ^e   Miller, Wolfgang J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d CNRS Université Pierre and Marie Curie ^*  (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HOST TRANSFER; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHAGOLETIS CERASI; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; STOP CODON; SYNTENY;

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERATITIS CAPITATA; CODON, TERMINATOR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; OVARY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SYNTENY; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84893426741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082402     Document Type: Article

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