A fragile metabolic network adapted for cooperation in the symbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Thomas, Gavin H ^a   Zucker, Jeremy ^b   Macdonald, Sandy J ^a   Sorokin, Anatoly ^c   Goryanin, Igor ^c   Douglas, Angela E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEXAPODA; PISUM SATIVUM; PROTEOBACTERIA;

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; HISTIDINE; PURINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BUCHNERA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; BUCHNERA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; GENES, BACTERIAL; HISTIDINE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PURINES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 62149098396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-3-24     Document Type: Article

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