New clues about the evolutionary history of metabolic losses in bacterial endosymbionts, provided by the genome of Buchnera aphidicola from the aphid Cinara tujafilina

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4446-4454

  Lamelas, Araceli ^a   Gosalbes, María José ^a   Moya, Andrés ^a   Latorre, Amparo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; BACTERIAL GENOMES; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; COMPLEMENTATION; COMPLETE GENOMES; EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE LOSS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; REDUCTION PROCESS; SERRATIA; SIZE REDUCTIONS; SYMBIOTIC ASSOCIATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; METABOLISM;

GENES;

BACTERIAL DNA;

APHID; BACTERIUM; ENDOSYMBIONT; EXTINCTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BUCHNERA; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BUCHNERA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BAIZONGIA; BUCHNERA (PROTEOBACTERIA); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CANDIDATUS SERRATIA SYMBIOTICA; CINARA CEDRI; CINARA TUJAFILINA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; SCHIZAPHIS GRAMINUM;

EID: 79960080098     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00141-11     Document Type: Article

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