Dynamic recruitment of amino acid transporters to the insect/symbiont interface

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1608-1623

  Duncan, Rebecca P ^a   Husnik, Filip ^b   Van Leuven, James T ^c   Gilbert, Donald G ^d   Dávalos, Liliana M ^e   McCutcheon, John P ^c   Wilson, Alex C C ^a  

^a University of Miami   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aphid; bacteriocyte; functional evolution; gene duplication; mealybug; sap feeding insect

Indexed keywords

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; PLANOCOCCUS CITRI; PSEUDOCOCCIDAE; STERNORRHYNCHA;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; INSECT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; BACTERIOCYTE; BACTERIUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOCOCCIDAE; SAP-FEEDING INSECT; SYMBIOSIS;

APHID; BACTERIOCYTE; FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; MEALYBUG; SAP-FEEDING INSECT;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; HEMIPTERA; INSECT PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84896393278     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12627     Document Type: Article

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