The endosymbiont (Buchnera sp.) of the aphid Diuraphis noxia contains plasmids consisting of trpEG and tandem repeats of trpEG pseudogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 332-339

  Lai, Chi Yung ^a   Baumann, Paul ^a   Moran, Nancy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRANILATE SYNTHASE; PLASMID DNA;

APHID; ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PROKARYOTE; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOGENE; SILENCER GENE; SYMBIOSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0030032623     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.2.332-339.1996     Document Type: Article

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