Parallel acceleration of evolutionary rates in symbiont genes underlying host nutrition

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 479-485

  Wernegreen, Jennifer J ^a,b   Richardson, Aaron O ^b   Moran, Nancy A ^b  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; UROLEUCON;

EID: 0034992516     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.2001.0929     Document Type: Article

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