Palaeosymbiosis Revealed by Genomic Fossils of Wolbachia in a Strongyloidean Nematode

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Koutsovoulos, Georgios ^a   Makepeace, Benjamin ^b   Tanya, Vincent N ^c   Blaxter, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Regional Centre of Wakwa   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN 60; FTSZ PROTEIN; REPLICATION INITIATOR PROTEIN DNAA; BACTERIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLADISTICS; CONTIG MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXA GENE; DICTYOCAULUS VIVIPARUS; DNAA GENE; FOSSIL; FTSZ GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; GROEL GENE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALAEOSYMBIOSIS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STRONGYLOIDEA; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASE; DICTYOCAULUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DICTYOCAULUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84903470156     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004397     Document Type: Article

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