Comparative genomics of Blattabacterium cuenoti: The frozen legacy of an ancient endosymbiont genome

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 351-361

  Patiño Navarrete, Rafael ^a   Moya, Andrés ^a,b,c   Latorre, Amparo ^a,b,c   Peretó, Juli ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c Centre for Public Health Research CSISP   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blatta orientalis; Blattabacterium endosymbiont; Genome reduction; Nitrogen metabolism; Pan genome; Urease

Indexed keywords

BLATTA ORIENTALIS; BLATTABACTERIUM; BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; BLATTELLIDAE; BLATTIDAE; CRYPTOCERCIDAE; CRYPTOCERCUS PUNCTULATUS; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; MASTOTERMES DARWINIENSIS; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 84876549266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt011     Document Type: Article

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