Tsetse fly microbiota: Form and function

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Jingwen ^a   Weiss, Brian L ^a   Aksoy, Serap ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sodalis; Symbiont; Tsetse fly; Wigglesworthia; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA REPLICATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FERTILITY; GLOSSINIDAE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROFLORA; MILK PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SALIVARY GLAND HYPERTROPHY VIRUS; SHORT SURVEY; SODALIS; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS; WIGGLESWORTHIA; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW;

SODALIS; SYMBIONT; TSETSE FLY; WIGGLESWORTHIA; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MICROBIOTA; SYMBIOSIS; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 84897926292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2013.00069     Document Type: Short Survey

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