Phylogenomics of the reproductive parasite Wolbachia pipientis wMel: A streamlined genome overrun by mobile genetic elements

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Wu, Martin ^a   Sun, Ling V ^b   Vamathevan, Jessica ^a   Riegler, Markus ^c   Deboy, Robert ^a   Brownlie, Jeremy C ^c   McGraw, Elizabeth A ^c   Martin, William ^d   Esser, Christian ^d   Ahmadinejad, Nahal ^d   Wiegand, Christian ^d   Madupu, Ramana ^a   Beanan, Maureen J ^a   Brinkac, Lauren M ^a   Daugherty, Sean C ^a   Durkin, A Scott ^a   Kolonay, James F ^a   Nelson, William C ^a   Mohamoud, Yasmin ^a   Lee, Perris ^a   Berry, Kristi ^a   Young, M Brook ^a   Utterback, Teresa ^a   Weidman, Janice ^a   Nierman, William C ^a   Paulsen, Ian T ^a   Nelson, Karen E ^a   Tettelin, Hervé ^a   O'Neill, Scott L ^b,c   Eisen, Jonathan A ^a   more..

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANKYRIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; DNA; PRIMER DNA; PURINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; GLYCOLYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INVERTEBRATE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE; PURINE SYNTHESIS; RICKETTSIA; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINEAGE; CHEMISTRY; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIALES; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; GLYCOLYSIS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PURINES; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 19344378727     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020069     Document Type: Article

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