Endosymbionts (Buchnera) of the aphid Uroleucon sonchi contain plasmids with trpEG and remnants of trpE pseudogenes

Current Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 18-21

  Baumann, Linda ^a   Clark, Marta A ^a   Rouhbakhsh, Dadbeh ^a   Baumann, Paul ^a   Moran, Nancy A ^b   Voegtlin, David J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHID; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SYMBIOSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0030986264     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900204     Document Type: Article

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