Genomics and evolution of heritable bacterial symbionts

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue , 2008, Pages 165-190

  Moran, Nancy A ^a   McCutcheon, John P ^b   Nakabachi, Atsushi ^c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aphid; Buchnera; Carsonella; Coevolution; Genome reduction; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENOMICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; INSECTS; SYMBIOSIS;

APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA (PROTEOBACTERIA); CANDIDATUS CARSONELLA; HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 58449125407     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.41.110306.130119     Document Type: Review

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