Different rates of nucleotide substitutions in Wolbachia endosymbionts of arthropods and nematodes: Arms race or host shifts?

Parassitologia

Volumn 44, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 179-187

  Baldo, L ^a   Bartos, J D ^b   Werren, J H ^b   Bazzocchi, C ^a   Casiraghi, M ^a   Panelli, S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c PARCO TECNOLOGICO PADANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

DnaA; FtsZ; Positive selection; Wolbachia; Wsp

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNAA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; FUSHI TARAZU PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; WSP PROTEIN, WOLBACHIA;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; NEMATODE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MUTAGENESIS; NEMATODA; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0038654271     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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