Hidden Diversity in Honey Bee Gut Symbionts Detected by Single-Cell Genomics

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Engel, Philipp ^a,c   Stepanauskas, Ramunas ^b   Moran, Nancy A ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GILLIAMELLA APICOLA; HONEYBEE; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL GENOMICS; SNODGRASSELLA ALVI; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; DNA SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BEES; BIODIVERSITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENOMICS; METAGENOME; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84907585369     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004596     Document Type: Article

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