Small, smaller, smallest: The origins and evolution of ancient dual symbioses in a phloem-feeding insect

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1675-1688

  Bennett, Gordon M ^a   Moran, Nancy A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene loss; Genome evolution; Leafhopper; Nasuia deltocephalinicola; Nutritional symbioses; Sulcia muelleri

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDETES; DNA SEQUENCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE LOSS; GENETICS; GENOME EVOLUTION; HEMIPTERA; LEAFHOPPER; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NASUIA DELTOCEPHALINICOLA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITIONAL SYMBIOSES; PHLOEM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SULCIA MUELLERI; SYMBIOSIS;

GENE LOSS; GENOME EVOLUTION; LEAFHOPPER; NASUIA DELTOCEPHALINICOLA; NUTRITIONAL SYMBIOSES; SULCIA MUELLERI;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HEMIPTERA; PHLOEM; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84892555212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt118     Document Type: Article

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