Patterns and rates of nucleotide substitution, insertion and deletion in the endosymbiont of ants Blochmannia floridanus

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 4382-4392

  Gomez Valero L ^a,b,c   Latorre, A ^b,c   Gil, R ^b,c   Gadau, J ^d   Feldhaar, H ^e   Silva, F J ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blochmannia floridanus; Camponotus floridanus; Deletional bias; Evolution; Genome reduction; Reduction rate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPOSON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ECOSYSTEM; FLORIDA; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA FLORIDANUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 52649174233     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03912.x     Document Type: Article

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