A bacterial genome in transition - An exceptional enrichment of IS elements but lack of evidence for recent transposition in the symbiont Amoebophilus asiaticus

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Schmitz Esser, Stephan ^a,b   Penz, Thomas ^a   Spang, Anja ^a   Horn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bacteroidetes; endosymbiont; genome evolution; insertion sequence element

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENOME; PROKARYOTE; PROTOZOAN;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CANDIDATUS AMOEBOPHILUS ASIATICUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDETES; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

BACTEROIDETES; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80053363485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-270     Document Type: Article

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