Conservation of the Type IV Secretion System throughout Wolbachia evolution

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 385, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 557-562

  Pichon, Samuel ^a   Bouchon, Didier ^a   Cordaux, Richard ^a   Chen, Lanming ^b   Garrett, Roger A ^b   Grève, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alphaproteobacteria; Endosymbiosis; Genomic plasticity; Insertion sequence; Rickettsiales; Structure conservation; Type IV Secretion System; Wolbachia pipientis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIR GENE; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENOME, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEINS; WOLBACHIA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTHROPODA; EUKARYOTA; NEMATODA; RICKETTSIALES; VIR; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

EID: 67449143188     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.05.118     Document Type: Article

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