Sequential Evolution of a Symbiont Inferred from the Host: Wolbachia and Drosophila simulans

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 428-442

  Ballard, J William O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Drosophila simulans; Mitochondria; Symbiosis; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SYMBIONT; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA; RICKETTSIALES; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0347280095     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh028     Document Type: Article

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