Host-symbiont conflicts: Positive selection on an outer membrane protein of parasitic but not mutualistic Rickettsiaceae

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1341-1349

  Jiggins, Francis M ^a   Hurst, Gregory D D ^b   Yang, Ziheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Cowdria; Map1 gene; Positive selection; Rickettsiaceae; Wolbachia; Wsp gene

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; MAJOR ANTIGENIC PROTEIN 1, COWDRIA RUMINANTIUM; WSP PROTEIN, WOLBACHIA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CODON; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NATURAL SELECTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITISM; REPRODUCTION; RICKETTSIACEAE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COWDRIA RUMINANTIUM; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; RICKETTSIACEAE; RICKETTSIALES; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0036667695     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004195     Document Type: Article

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