Evolution of an endofungal Lifestyle: Deductions from the Burkholderia rhizoxinica Genome

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lackner, Gerald ^a   Moebius, Nadine ^a   Partida Martinez, Laila P ^a,b   Boland, Sebastian ^c   Hertweck, Christian ^a,d  

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CITRIC ACID; NATURAL PRODUCT; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; RHIZOXIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA RHIZOXINICA; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; HOST; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; QUORUM SENSING; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSPOSON; TYPE STRAIN; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOGENE; RHIZOPUS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; FUNGI; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BURKHOLDERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PSEUDOGENES; RHIZOPUS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 79955500171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-210     Document Type: Article

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