Genome economization in the endosymbiont of the wood roach cryptocercus punctulatus due to drastic loss of amino acid synthesis capabilities

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1437-1448

  Neef, Alexander ^a   Latorre, Amparo ^a,b   Peretó, Juli ^a,b   Silva, Francisco J ^a,b   Pignatelli, Miguel ^b,c   Moya, Andrés ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteroidetes; Blattabacterium; Genome reduction; Metabolic pathway loss; Symbiosis; Wood feeding

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; COCKROACH; ENDOPHYTE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME SIZE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; COCKROACHES; ENDOPHYTES; FEMALE; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTEROIDETES; BLATTABACTERIUM; BLATTABACTERIUM SP.; BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; CRYPTOCERCUS PUNCTULATUS; DICTYOPTERA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA;

EID: 84859131305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr118     Document Type: Article

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