Consequences of reductive evolution for gene expression in an obligate endosymbiont

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1491-1500

  Wilcox, Jennifer L ^a   Dunbar, Helen E ^b   Wolfinger, Russell D ^b   Moran, Nancy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APHID; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BUCHNERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ENDOSYMBIONT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAT STRESS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRESS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APHIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BUCHNERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEOME; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0038575162     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03522.x     Document Type: Article

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