Comparative Genomics of Wolbachia and the Bacterial Species Concept

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Ellegaard, Kirsten Maren ^a   Klasson, Lisa ^a   Näslund, Kristina ^a   Bourtzis, Kostas ^b,c,d   Andersson, Siv G E ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b University of Western Greece   (Greece)

^c BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLADISTICS; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOMICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MIXED INFECTION; NEW CALEDONIA; NONHUMAN; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SEROTYPE; SEYCHELLES; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; NEW CALEDONIA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEYCHELLES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84876854063     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003381     Document Type: Article

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