Genome evolution in an insect cell: Distinct features of an ant-bacterial partnership

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 221-231

  Wernegreen, Jennifer J ^a   Degnan, Patrick H ^a   Lazarus, Adam B ^a   Palacios, Carmen ^a   Bordenstein, Seth R ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLOCHMANNIA; CAMPONOTUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EUKARYOTA; FORMICIDAE; GLOSSINA (PROPER); HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; PSYLLIDAE;

EID: 0037396914     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543563     Document Type: Conference Paper

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