Small genome of Candidatus Blochmannia, the bacterial endosymbiont of Camponotus, implies irreversible specialization to an intracellular lifestyle

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2551-2556

  Wernegreen, J J ^a   Lazarus, A B ^a   Degnan, P H ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asexuality; Bacteriocytes; Genetic drift; Genome reduction; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE LOSS; GENOME SIZE; HOST CELL; INSECT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPONOTUS; CANDIDATUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EUKARYOTA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMALS; ANTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0036667441     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-8-2551     Document Type: Article

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