The striking case of tryptophan provision in the cedar aphid Cinara cedri

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 6026-6029

  Gosalbes, María José ^a   Lamelas, Araceli ^a   Moya, Andrés ^a   Latorre, Amparo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; APHID; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CANDIDATUS SERRATIA SYMBIOTICA; CHROMOSOME; CINARA CEDRI; ENDOSYMBIONT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERRATIA; TRPEG GENE;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BUCHNERA; GENES, BACTERIAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SYMBIOSIS; TRYPTOPHAN;

APHIDIDAE; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CANDIDATUS SERRATIA SYMBIOTICA; CINARA CEDRI;

EID: 50249183451     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00525-08     Document Type: Article

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