Transposable element loads in a bacterial symbiont of weevils are extremely variable

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 7832-7834

  Dougherty, Kevin M ^a   Plague, Gordon R ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL SYMBIONTS; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENOMIC VARIATIONS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATIONS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; LOAD VARIABILITIES; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIUM; BEETLE; DNA; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMOLOGY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MAIZE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; TRANSPOSON; WEEVIL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENETIC VARIATION; SYMBIOSIS; WEEVILS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CURCULIONIDAE; SITOPHILUS ZEAMAIS;

EID: 57449114525     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01049-08     Document Type: Article

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