Symbionts Commonly Provide Broad Spectrum Resistance to Viruses in Insects: A Comparative Analysis of Wolbachia Strains

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Martinez, Julien ^a   Longdon, Ben ^a   Bauer, Simone ^a   Chan, Yuk Sang ^a   Miller, Wolfgang J ^b   Bourtzis, Kostas ^c,d,e   Teixeira, Luis ^f   Jiggins, Francis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

^e INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^f INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMBIONT; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INSECT VIRUS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INSECT VIRUSES; MALE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; VIRUS DISEASES; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84907573403     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004369     Document Type: Article

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