Identification and ultrastructural characterization of the Wolbachia symbiont in Litomosoides chagasfilhoi

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Chagas Moutinho, Vanessa Aparecida ^a,b   Silva, Rosane ^a   De Souza, Wanderley ^a,b,c   Motta, Maria Cristina Machado ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Inst Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Biologia Estrutural e Bioimagens   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METROLOGIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Filarial nematodes; Litomosoides chagasfilhoi; Symbiosis; Transmission electron microscopy; Ultrastructure analyses; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

OSMIUM TETRAOXIDE; POTASSIUM IODIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CYTOCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HOST CELL; LITOMOSOIDES; LITOMOSOIDES CHAGASFILHOI; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FILARIOIDEA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LITOMOSOIDES CHAGASFILHOI; LITOMOSOIDES GALIZAI; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FILARIOIDEA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84924120579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0668-x     Document Type: Article

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