Bacteriophage flux in endosymbionts (Wolbachia): Infection frequency, lateral transfer, and recombination rates

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1981-1991

  Bordenstein, Seth R ^a   Wernegreen, Jennifer J ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Endosymbiosis; Lateral transfer; Parasitism; Virus; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; ENDOSYMBIONT; EPHESTIA CAUTELLA; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE WO; CADRA CAUTELLA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIALES; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 4944228947     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh211     Document Type: Article

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