Gene expression level influences amino acid usage, but not codon usage, in the tsetse fly endosymbiont Wigglesworthia

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2585-2596

  Herbeck, Joshua T ^a   Wall, Dennis P ^b   Wernegreen, Jennifer J ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL RNA; CHAPERONIN; CYSTEINE; GLYCINE; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLOSSINA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TSETSE FLY; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA;

ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLOSSINA (PROPER); GLOSSINA BREVIPALPIS; HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; WIGGLESWORTHIA; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA ENDOSYMBIONT OF GLOSSINA BREVIPALPIS;

EID: 0141814791     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26381-0     Document Type: Article

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