Structure and evolution of the leucine plasmids carried by the endosymbiont (Buchnera aphidicola) from aphids of the family Aphididae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-49

  Silva, Francisco J ^a   Van Ham, Roeland C H J ^a   Sabater, Beatriz ^a   Latorre, Amparo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aphid; Bacterial endosymbiont; Buchnera aphidicola; Inverted repeat; Leucine biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; APHID; ARTICLE; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APHIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEUCINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0031740241     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00418-2     Document Type: Article

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