Unprecedented loss of ammonia assimilation capability in a urease-encoding bacterial mutualist

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Williams, Laura E ^a   Wernegreen, Jennifer J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; UREASE; POLYADENYLIC ACID; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOCHMANNIA FLORIDANUS; BLOCHMANNIA PENNSYLAVANICUS; BLOCHMANNIA VAFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; ANIMAL; ANT; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYMOLOGY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPONOTINI; CAMPONOTUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA VAFER; FORMICIDAE; UREAPLASMA;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLY A; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SYMBIOSIS; UREASE;

EID: 78649588858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-687     Document Type: Article

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