Evolution of host specialization in gut microbes: The bee gut as a model

Gut Microbes

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 214-220

  Kwong, Waldan K ^a,b   Moran, Nancy A ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Gut symbionts; Host specificity; Insects; Snodgrassella

Indexed keywords

PANTOTHENIC ACID; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BOMBUS IMPATIENS; BUMBLEBEE; CELL INTERACTION; COEVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC EROSION; GILLIAMELLA APICOLA; HONEYBEE; HOST RANGE; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; METAGENOMICS; METATRANSCRIPTOMICS; MICROBIOME; PHYLOGENY; PYROBOMBUS; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SNODGRASSELLA ALVI; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; SYMBIONT; SYMPATRY; TRANSPOSON; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; XENORHABDUS; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BEE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MICROBIOLOGY; NEISSERIACEAE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; NEISSERIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84944452372     PISSN: 19490976     EISSN: 19490984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2015.1047129     Document Type: Article

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