Genetic and metabolic determinants of nutritional phenotype in an insect-bacterial symbiosis

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2073-2084

  MacDonald, S J ^a   Thomas, G H ^a   Douglas, A E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acyrthosiphon pisum; amino acid nutrition; aphid; Buchnera; flux balance analysis; nutritional phenotype; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BUCHNERA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; ANIMALS; APHIDS; BACTERIA; BUCHNERA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA (PROTEOBACTERIA); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; HEXAPODA; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 79955580332     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05031.x     Document Type: Article

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