Parasitism and mutualism in Wolbachia: What the phylogenomic trees can and cannot say

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 231-241

  Bordenstein, Seth R ^a,b   Paraskevopoulos, Charalampos ^c   Dunning Hotopp, Julie C ^d,e   Sapountzis, Panagiotis ^c   Lo, Nathan ^f,i   Bandi, Claudio ^g   Tettelin, Hervé ^d,e   Werren, John H ^h   Bourtzis, Kostas ^c  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^d J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Endosymbiosis; Mutualism; Parasitism; PhyloBayes; Phylogenomics; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA; ARTICLE; EHRLICHIA; GENE SEQUENCE; LONG BRANCH ATTRACTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITISM; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BAYES THEOREM; FILARIOIDEA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANAPLASMA; ARTHROPODA; EHRLICHIA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 57749172937     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn243     Document Type: Article

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