Journal article
Bacillus DNA in fossil bees: an ancient symbiosis?
Abstract
We report here the isolation of DNA from abdominal tissue of four extinct stingless bees (Proplebeia dominicana) in Dominican amber, PCR amplification of a 546-bp fragment of the 16S rRNA gene from Bacillus spp., and their corresponding nucleotide sequences. These sequences were used in basic local alignment search tool searches of nonredundant nucleic acid data bases, and the highest scores were obtained with 16S rRNA sequences from Bacillus …
Authors
Cano RJ; Borucki MK; Higby-Schweitzer M; Poinar HN; Poinar GO; Pollard KJ
Journal
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 60, No. 6, pp. 2164–2167
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Publication Date
June 1994
DOI
10.1128/aem.60.6.2164-2167.1994
ISSN
0099-2240