Analysis of multiple tsetse fly populations in Uganda reveals limited diversity and species-specific gut microbiota

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 4301-4312

  Aksoy, Emre ^a   Telleria, Erich L ^a,d   Echodu, Richard ^b   Wu, Yineng ^a   Okedi, Loyce M ^c   Weiss, Brian L ^a   Aksoy, Serap ^a   Caccone, Adalgisa ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GULU UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c National Livestock Resources Research Institute   (Uganda)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

16S RRNA GENE CLONE LIBRARIES; DENSITY VARIATIONS; MICROBIAL ABUNDANCES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; QUANTITATIVE PCR; SYMPATRIC SPECIES; TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS; VECTOR COMPETENCES;

GENES;

ENDOSYMBIONT; FLAGELLATE; GENOME; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MATURATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SYMPATRY; TSETSE FLY;

UGANDA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GLOSSINIDAE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; UGANDA; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICROBIOTA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; TSETSE FLIES; UGANDA; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

EID: 84903185791     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00079-14     Document Type: Article

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