Draft genome sequence of the male-killing Wolbachia strain wBol1 reveals recent horizontal gene transfers from diverse sources

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Duplouy, Anne ^a,b   Iturbe Ormaetxe, Iñaki ^a,c   Beatson, Scott A ^a   Szubert, Jan M ^a   Brownlie, Jeremy C ^a,d   McMeniman, Conor J ^a,e   McGraw, Elizabeth A ^a,c   Hurst, Gregory D D ^f   Charlat, Sylvain ^g   O'Neill, Scott L ^a,c   Woolfit, Megan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^g LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BUTTERFLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HYPOLIMNAS BOLINA; INVERTEBRATA; PROKARYOTA; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; SECA PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BUTTERFLIES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84872190079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-20     Document Type: Article

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