Maintenance of essential amino acid synthesis pathways in the Blattabacterium cuenoti symbiont of a wood-feeding cockroach

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Tokuda, Gaku ^a   Elbourne, Liam D H ^b   Kinjo, Yukihiro ^a   Saitoh, Seikoh ^a   Sabree, Zakee ^c   Hojo, Masaru ^a   Yamada, Akinori ^d   Hayashi, Yoshinobu ^e   Shigenobu, Shuji ^f   Bandi, Claudio ^g   Paulsen, Ian T ^b   Watanabe, Hirofumi ^h   Lo, Nathan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genome degradation; Mutualism; Termite

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; COCKROACH; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MUTUALISM; PHYLOGENETICS; TERMITE;

AMINO ACID; NITROGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COCKROACH; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; COCKROACHES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENOME; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84878206137     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.1153     Document Type: Article

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