The Diversity and Evolution of Wolbachia Ankyrin Repeat Domain Genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Siozios, Stefanos ^a,f   Ioannidis, Panagiotis ^a,g   Klasson, Lisa ^b   Andersson, Siv G E ^b   Braig, Henk R ^c   Bourtzis, Kostas ^a,d,e  

^a University of Western Greece   (Greece)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

^e INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^f RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN;

ANKYRIN REPEAT DOMAIN GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE POOL; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANKYRIN REPEAT; ANKYRINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84873488127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055390     Document Type: Article

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