Increased rates of sequence evolution in endosymbiotic bacteria and fungi with small effective population sizes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1545-1555

  Woolfit, Megan ^a   Bromham, Lindell ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

AT bias; Likelihood ratio test; Phylogeny; Relative rate; Symbiosis; Yeast like symbionts

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA 16S;

APHID; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BUCHNERA; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EVOLUTION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FUNGUS; GENETIC DRIFT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; SPIROCHETE;

APHIDIDAE; ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FUNGI; HAMILTONAPHIS STYRACI YEAST-LIKE SYMBIONT; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0041695491     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg167     Document Type: Article

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