Genome degeneration affects both extracellular and intracellular bacterial endosymbionts

Journal of Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Feldhaar, Heike ^a   Gross, Roy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DEGENERATION; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVOLUTION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE LOSS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; INSECT; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STINKBUG; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; INSECTS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 69049102134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14754924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/jbiol129     Document Type: Short Survey

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