Horizontal transfers and gene losses in the phospholipid pathway of bartonella reveal clues about early ecological niches

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2156-2169

  Zhu, Qiyun ^a   Kosoy, Michael ^b   Olival, Kevin J ^c   Dittmar, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bartonella; Gene loss; Horizontal gene transfer; Host association; Intracellularity; Phospholipid pathway

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE (NAD); PHOSPHOLIPID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; BACTERIAL GENOME; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLOSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLYCEROL-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE (NAD+); HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84912125415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu169     Document Type: Article

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