Tempo and mode of early gene loss in endosymbiotic bacteria from insects

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Delmotte, F ^a   Rispe, C ^b   Schaber, J ^c   Silva, F J ^d   Moya, A ^d  

^a BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOCHMANNIA FLORIDANUS; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SERIAL ENDOSYMBIOTIC THEORY; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INSECT; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

BUCHNERA (PROTEOBACTERIA); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA FLORIDANUS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA;

ANIMALS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE DELETION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INSECTS; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 33747401945     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-56     Document Type: Article

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