Comparative genomics of parasitic silkworm microsporidia reveal an association between genome expansion and host adaptation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Pan, Guoqing ^a   Xu, Jinshan ^b,c   Li, Tian ^a   Xia, Qingyou ^a   Liu, Shao Lun ^c   Zhang, Guojie ^d   Li, Songgang ^d   Li, Chunfeng ^a   Liu, Handeng ^a   Yang, Liu ^a   Liu, Tie ^a   Zhang, Xi ^b   Wu, Zhengli ^a   Fan, Wei ^d   Dang, Xiaoqun ^a   Xiang, Heng ^a   Tao, Meilin ^a   Li, Yanhong ^a   Hu, Junhua ^a   Li, Zhi ^a,b   Lin, Lipeng ^a   Luo, Jie ^a   Geng, Lina ^a   Wang, LinLing ^b   Long, Mengxian ^a   Wan, Yongji ^a   He, Ningjia ^a   Zhang, Ze ^a   Lu, Cheng ^a   Keeling, Patrick J ^c   Wang, Jun ^d   Xiang, Zhonghuai ^a   Zhou, Zeyang ^a,b   more..

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

Author keywords

Gene duplication; Horizontal gene transfer; Host adaptation; Host derived transposable element; Microsporidian; Silkworms

Indexed keywords

ANTHERAEA PERNYI; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BOMBYX MORI; CHROMOSOME TANDEM DUPLICATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME EXPANSION; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST ADAPTATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA; NOSEMA ANTHERAEAE; NOSEMA BOMBYCIS; NOSEMA CERANAE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOMICS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MICROSPORIDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

ANTHERAEA PERNYI; APIS MELLIFERA; BOMBYX MORI; MICROSPORIDIA; NOSEMA; NOSEMA ANTHERAEAE; NOSEMA BOMBYCIS; NOSEMA CERANAE;

EID: 84874937689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-186     Document Type: Article

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