Genome expansion and differential expression of amino acid transporters at the aphid/Buchnera symbiotic interface

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3113-3126

  Price, Daniel R G ^a   Duncan, Rebecca P ^a   Shigenobu, Shuji ^b,c   Wilson, Alex C C ^a  

^a University of Miami   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AAAP; APC; bacteriocyte; gene duplication; slimfast; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APHID; ARTICLE; BUCHNERA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HUMAN; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; ANIMALS; APHIDS; BAYES THEOREM; BUCHNERA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, DUPLICATE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 80053573126     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr140     Document Type: Article

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