Parallel histories of horizontal gene transfer facilitated extreme reduction of endosymbiont genomes in sap-feeding insects

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 857-871

  Sloan, Daniel B ^a   Nakabachi, Atsushi ^b   Richards, Stephen ^c   Qu, Jiaxin ^c   Murali, Shwetha Canchi ^c   Gibbs, Richard A ^c   Moran, Nancy A ^d  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid biosynthesis; Endosymbionts; Lateral gene transfer; Pachypsylla venusta; Psyllids

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC REGULATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INSECT GENOME; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PACHYPSYLLA VENUSTA; PLASTID; PSEUDOCOCCIDAE; PSYLLID; RNA SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID BIOSYNTHESIS; ENDOSYMBIONTS; LATERAL GENE TRANSFER; PACHYPSYLLA VENUSTA; PSYLLIDS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, INSECT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HEMIPTERA; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84897900372     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu004     Document Type: Article

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