The generalist inside the specialist: Gut bacterial communities of two insect species feeding on toxic plants are dominated by Enterococcus sp.

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue JUN, 2016, Pages

  Vilanova, Cristina ^a,b   Baixeras, Joaquín ^a   Latorre, Amparo ^a,b,c   Porcar, Manuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c Centro Superior de Investigación en Salud Pública   (Spain)

Author keywords

Enterococcus sp.; Gut communities; Lepidoptera; Metagenomics; Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILM; BRITHYS CRINI; DNA EXTRACTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; EUPHORBIA; FEEDING; FIRMICUTES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HYLES EUPHORBIAE; INTESTINE FLORA; LEPIDOPTERA; METAGENOMICS; POISONOUS PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPODOPTERA LITURA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 84980370981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01005     Document Type: Article

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