Local hopping mobile DNA implicated in pseudogene formation and reductive evolution in an obligate cyanobacteria-plant symbiosis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Vigil Stenman, Theoden ^a   Larsson, John ^b   Nylander, Johan A A ^c   Bergman, Birgitta ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SCIENCE FOR LIFE LABORATORY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Genomic streamlining; Insertion sequences; Local hopping; Nitrogen fixation; Pseudogenes; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

DNA; LOCAL HOPPING MOBILE DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TRANSPOSON;

ANABAENA VARIABILIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOINFORMATICS; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYANOTHECE; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII; DNA TRANSPOSITION; FRANKIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC AZOLLAE 0708; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; ONION; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PSEUDOGENE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAPHIDIOPSIS BROOKII; REDUCTIVE EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GENOME SIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; TRANSPOSON;

AZOLLA FILICULOIDES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; HYDROPTERIDALES; NOSTOC; NOSTOC SP.; PROKARYOTA;

CYANOBACTERIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84928230995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1386-7     Document Type: Article

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