Reduced selective constraint in endosymbionts: Elevation in radical amino acid replacements occurs genome-wide

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Wernegreen, Jennifer J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIUM; BLOCHMANNIA; BUCHNERA; CELL KINETICS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANT; APHID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTS; APHIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; BUCHNERA; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 83355170629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028905     Document Type: Article

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