The process of genome shrinkage in the obligate symbiont Buchnera aphidicola

Genome Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2001, Pages

  Moran, Nancy A ^a   Mira, Alex ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Flank Gene; Gene Inventory; Large Deletion; Small Genome; Yersinia Pestis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BUCHNERA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; SYMBIOSIS; SYNTENY;

BUCHNERA; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, BACTERIAL; SYMBIOSIS; SYNTENY;

EID: 0035749612     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2001-2-12-research0054     Document Type: Article

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