Tropical tephritid fruit fly community with high incidence of shared Wolbachia strains as platform for horizontal transmission of endosymbionts

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3622-3637

  Morrow, J L ^a   Frommer, M ^b   Shearman, D C A ^b   Riegler, M ^a  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; BACTROCERA NEOHUMERALIS; FOPIUS ARISANUS; HEXAPODA; TEPHRITIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; TEPHRITIDAE; WASP; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; TEPHRITIDAE; WASPS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84921539705     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12382     Document Type: Article

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