Illuminating the Evolutionary History of Chlamydiae

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5671, 2004, Pages 728-730

  Horn, Matthias ^a   Collingro, Astrid ^a   Schmitz Esser, Stephan ^a   Beier, Cora L ^a   Purkhold, Ulrike ^a   Fartmann, Berthold ^b   Brandt, Petra ^b   Nyakatura, Gerald ^b   Droege, Marcus ^b   Frishman, Dmitrij ^c   Rattei, Thomas ^c   Mewes, Hans Werner ^c   Wagner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MWG Biotech AG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BLINDNESS; CHLAMYDIAE; EUKARYOTES; GENE ACQUISITION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

MEDICINE;

AMOEBA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BLINDNESS; CHLAMYDIA; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENOME ANALYSIS; HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYMBIOSIS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIALES; CHLAMYDOPHILA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EVOLUTION; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIAE; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 2342423344     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1096330     Document Type: Article

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