Serendipitous discovery of Wolbachia genomes in multiple Drosophila species

Genome Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Salzberg, Steven L ^a   Dunning Hotopp, Julie C ^a   Delcher, Arthur L ^a   Pop, Mihai ^a   Smith, Douglas R ^b   Eisen, Michael B ^c   Nelson, William C ^a  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Agencourt Bioscience Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA ANANASSAE; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENBANK; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; HUMAN; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; SAMPLING; SOFTWARE; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 18944377180     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2005-6-3-r23     Document Type: Article

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