Endosymbionts (Buchnera) from the aphids Schizaphis graminum and Diuraphis noxia have different copy numbers of the plasmid containing the leucine biosynthetic genes

Current Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 238-240

  Thao, Mylo Ly ^a   Baumann, Linda ^a   Baumann, Paul ^a   Moran, Nancy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHID; ARTICLE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE LOCATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BACTERIA; GENE DOSAGE; ISOMERASES; LEUCINE; PLASMIDS; SYMBIOSIS;

APHIDIDAE; ARACHNIDA; DIURAPHIS NOXIA; HEXAPODA; PROKARYOTA; SCHIZAPHIS GRAMINUM;

EID: 0031934347     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900301     Document Type: Article

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