Variability and expression of ankyrin domain genes in Wolbachia variants infecting the mosquito Culex pipiens

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4442-4448

  Duron, Olivier ^a,d   Boureux, Anthony ^b   Echaubard, Pierre ^a   Berthomieu, Arnaud ^a   Berticat, Claire ^a   Fort, Philippe ^c   Weill, Mylène ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA;

ANK GENE; ANK2 GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CULEX PIPIENS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PK1 GENE; PK2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WOLBACHIA; WSP GENE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ANKYRINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CROSSES, GENETIC; CULEX; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WOLBACHIA;

ARTHROPODA; CULEX PIPIENS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 34250345685     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00142-07     Document Type: Article

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