The roles of positive and negative selection in the molecular evolution of insect endosymbionts

Gene

Volumn 355, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Fry, Adam J ^a,b   Wernegreen, Jennifer J ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Blochmannia; Buchnera; Camponotus; Genetic drift; Purifying selection

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN; GENE PRODUCT;

ANT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BLOCHMANNIA; BUCHNERA; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GROEL PROTEIN; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

CAMPONOTUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; ENTEROBACTERIA; FORMICIDAE; INSECTA;

EID: 23644457026     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.05.021     Document Type: Article

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