Genetic characterization of plasmids containing genes encoding enzymes of leucine biosynthesis in endosymbionts (Buchnera) of aphids

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-85

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Buchnera; Diuraphis noxia; Endosymbionts; Leucine biosynthesis; Plasmid amplification; Schizaphis graminum

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; APHID; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; ENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEUCINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SYMBIOSIS;

APHIDIDAE; DIURAPHIS NOXIA; MOYA; PEMPHIGIDAE; PROKARYOTA; RHOPALOSIPHUM; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI; SCHIZAPHIS GRAMINUM; THELAXES SUBERI;

EID: 0032900069     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006447     Document Type: Article

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