The rate of recombination in Wolbachia bacteria [5]

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1640-1643

  Jiggins, Francis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cowdria; ftsZ gene; Recombination; Rickettsiaceae; Wolbachia; wsp gene

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; EHRLICHIA; EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYPOTHESIS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIONT; WOLBACHIA; ALLELE; ANIMAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EHRLICHIA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE; WOLBACHIA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; GENE FREQUENCY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0036728258     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004228     Document Type: Letter

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