Riboflavin provisioning underlies wolbachia’s fitness contribution to its insect host

mBio

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Moriyama, Minoru ^a   Nikoh, Naruo ^b   Hosokawa, Takahiro ^a,c   Fukatsu, Takema ^a,d,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOFLAVIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FITNESS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN METABOLISM; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INSECTS; RIBOFLAVIN; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84952803191     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01732-15     Document Type: Article

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