Mutational and selective pressures on codon and amino acid usage in Buchnera, endosymbiotic bacteria of aphids

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 44-53

  Rispe, Claude ^a   Delmotte, François ^b,c   van Ham, Roeland C H J ^d,e   Moya, Andres ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

^d CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AROMATIC AMINO ACID;

APHID; ARTICLE; BUCHNERA; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; APHIDS; BASE COMPOSITION; BUCHNERA; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, INSECT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

APHIDIDAE; BAIZONGIA PISTACIAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0347135951     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1358104     Document Type: Article

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