Evolutionary genetics of a defensive facultative symbiont of insects: Exchange of toxin-encoding bacteriophage

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 916-929

  Degnan, Patrick H ^a   Moran, Nancy A ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage APSE; Codiversification; Facultative endosymbiont; Hamiltonella defensa; Pseudogene; Type III secretion system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHEMISTRY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; SYMBIOSIS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS HAMILTONELLA DEFENSA; HEXAPODA; PISUM SATIVUM; UROLEUCON;

EID: 38349155450     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03616.x     Document Type: Article

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