Putative evolutionary origin of plasmids carrying the genes involved in leucine biosynthesis in Buchnera aphidicola (endosymbiont of aphids)

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 4768-4777

  Van Ham, Roeland C H J ^a,b   Moya, Andrés ^a   Latorre, Amparo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LEUCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; APHID; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA; RHOPALOSIPHUM; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI; TETRANEURA CAERULESCENS; THELAXES SUBERI;

EID: 0030802444     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.15.4768-4777.1997     Document Type: Article

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