Extensively duplicated and transcriptionally active recent lateral gene transfer from a bacterial Wolbachia endosymbiont to its host filarial nematode Brugia malayi

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ioannidis, Panagiotis ^a,d   Johnston, Kelly L ^b   Riley, David R ^a   Kumar, Nikhil ^a   White, James R ^a   Olarte, Karen T ^a   Ott, Sandra ^a   Tallon, Luke J ^a   Foster, Jeremy M ^c   Taylor, Mark J ^b   Dunning Hotopp, Julie C ^a  

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

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUGIA MALAYI; LANGAT VIRUS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BRUGIA MALAYI; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, HELMINTH; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84884308327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-639     Document Type: Article

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