Factors limiting the spread of the protective symbiont Hamiltonella defensa in Aphis craccivora aphids

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 5818-5827

  Dykstra, Hannah R ^a   Weldon, Stephanie R ^a   Martinez, Adam J ^a   White, Jennifer A ^b   Hopper, Keith R ^c   Heimpel, George E ^d   Asplen, Mark K ^d   Oliver, Kerry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c USDA ARS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS; INFECTION DYNAMICS; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES; MATERNAL TRANSMISSION; REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR; TRANSMISSION FAILURES; TRANSMISSION RATES;

STRAIN;

ABUNDANCE; APHID; BACTERIOPHAGE; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; ENDOPARASITE; FITNESS; PHENOTYPE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; WASP;

NORTH AMERICA;

VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; APHID; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA, VIRAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84906351277     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01775-14     Document Type: Article

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