Extensive genomic diversity of closely related wolbachia strains

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2211-2222

  Ishmael, Nadeeza ^a,b,g   Hotopp, Julie C Dunning ^a,b   Loanidis, Panagiotis ^c   Biber, Sarah ^d,h   Sakamoto, Joyce ^b   Siozios, Stefanos ^c   Nene, Vishvanath ^a,b,i   Werren, John ^e   Boutriz, Kostas ^c   Bordenstein, Seth R ^d,f   Tettelin, Hervé ^a,b  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^d MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^h BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MUTL; PROTEIN MUTL 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

ANIMALS; ANKYRINS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WOLBACHIA;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA ENDOSYMBIONT OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 69949190930     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.027581-0     Document Type: Article

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