The Wolbachia genome of Brugia malayi: Endosymbiont evolution within a human pathogenic nematode

PLoS Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 0599-0614

  Foster, Jeremy ^a   Ganatra, Mehul ^a   Kamal, Ibrahim ^a,e   Ware, Jennifer ^a   Makarova, Kira ^b   Ivanova, Natalia ^c,f   Bhattacharyya, Anamitra ^c   Kapatral, Vinayak ^c   Kumar, Sanjay ^a   Posfai, Janos ^a   Vincze, Tamas ^a   Ingram, Jessica ^a   Moran, Laurie ^a   Lapidus, Alla ^c,f   Omelchenko, Marina ^b   Kyrpides, Nikos ^c,f   Ghedin, Elodie ^d   Wang, Shiliang ^d   Goltsman, Eugene ^c,f   Joukov, Victor ^c   Ostrovskaya, Olga ^c,g   Tsukerman, Kiryl ^c   Mazur, Mikhail ^c   Comb, Donald ^a   Koonin, Eugene ^b   Slatko, Barton ^a   more..

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c Integrated Genomics   (United States)

^d J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

^f DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; HEME; LIPID A; NUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOFLAVIN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOGENESIS; BRUGIA MALAYI; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDOSYMBIONT; FERTILITY; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; GENE LOSS; GENOME; HOST CELL; HOST RESISTANCE; LIPOGENESIS; METABOLISM; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOBACTERIA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RICKETTSIA; SURVIVAL; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

BRUGIA MALAYI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; PROTEOBACTERIA; RICKETTSIA; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA ENDOSYMBIONT OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; BRUGIA MALAYI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 21144432943     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030121     Document Type: Article

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