Characteristics of the genome of Arsenophonus nasoniae, son-killer bacterium of the wasp Nasonia

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 75-89

  Darby, A C ^a   Choi, J H ^b   Wilkes, T ^a   Hughes, M A ^a   Werren, J H ^c   Hurst, G D D ^a   Colbourne, J K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenophonus; Insect symbiont; Male killing; Microbial genome sequence; Photorhabdus; Toxins; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; WASP;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; WASPS;

ARSENOPHONUS; ARSENOPHONUS NASONIAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; NASONIA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; PHOTORHABDUS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 75649091174     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2009.00950.x     Document Type: Article

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