Remarkable abundance and evolution of mobile group II introns in Wolbachia bacterial endosymbionts

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 685-697

  Leclercq, Sébastien ^a   Giraud, Isabelle ^a   Cordaux, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

genome evolution; mobile group II intron; obligate endosymbiont; spliceosomal introns; transposable element; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOSYMBIONT; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; FAMILY; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTRON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RETROPOSON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 78650485280     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq238     Document Type: Article

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