A Novel Human-Infection-Derived Bacterium Provides Insights into the Evolutionary Origins of Mutualistic Insect-Bacterial Symbioses

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Clayton, Adam L ^a   Oakeson, Kelly F ^a   Gutin, Maria ^a   Pontes, Arthur ^a   Dunn, Diane M ^b   von Niederhausern, Andrew C ^b   Weiss, Robert B ^b   Fisher, Mark ^b,c   Dale, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFALEXIN; RNA 16S;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOSTRATICOLA TOFI; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STRAIN; GLOSSINIDAE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAND INJURY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MALE; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITOPHILUS ORYZAE; SODALIS GLOSSINIDIUS; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SYMBIOSIS; TSETSE FLIES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; SODALIS; SODALIS GLOSSINIDIUS;

EID: 84870684976     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002990     Document Type: Article

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