Genome sequence of the endocellular obligate symbiont of tsetse flies, Wigglesworthia glossinidia

Nature Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 402-407

  Akman, Leyla ^a,e   Yamashita, Atsushi ^b   Watanabe, Hidemi ^c   Oshima, Kenshiro ^d   Shiba, Tadayoshi ^b   Hattori, Masahira ^b,c   Aksoy, Serap ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FERTILITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMBIONT; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SOFTWARE; SYMBIOSIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

ARACHNIDA; GLOSSINA (PROPER); HEXAPODA; INSECTA; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA ENDOSYMBIONT OF GLOSSINA BREVIPALPIS;

EID: 0036842986     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng986     Document Type: Article

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