Accelerated evolutionary rate in sulfur-oxidizing endosymbiotic bacteria associated with the mode of symbiont transmission

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1514-1523

  Peek, Andrew S ^a,b   Vrijenhoek, Robert C ^a   Gaut, Brandon S ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rDNA domains; Bacterial symbiosis; Chemoautotrophic sulfur oxidation; Loop stem; Nearly neutral substitution rate; Selective constraint

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SULFUR BACTERIUM; SYMBIOSIS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFUR; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0031786325     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025879     Document Type: Article

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