Complete WO phage sequences reveal their dynamic evolutionary trajectories and putative functional elements required for integration into the Wolbachia genome

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5676-5686

  Tanaka, Kohjiro ^a   Furukawa, Seiichi ^b   Nikoh, Naruo ^c   Sasaki, Tetsuhiko ^b   Fukatsu, Takema ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR PROCESS; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; DATABASE SEARCHES; ENDOSYMBIONT; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS; GENETIC ELEMENTS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; INSECT POPULATION; INTEGRASE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PROPHAGE GENES; PROPHAGES; PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS; SEQUENCE MOTIFS; SYMBIOTIC BACTERIA;

BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIOPHAGES; GENES; INSECT CONTROL; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SEARCH ENGINES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

INTEGRASE;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DATABASE; DIVERGENCE; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOTH; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HOST; INSECT; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS INTEGRATION; WOLBACHIA;

ANAGASTA KUEHNIELLA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 69449089575     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01172-09     Document Type: Article

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