Mosaic genome of endobacteria in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: Transkingdom gene transfer in an ancient mycoplasma-fungus association

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 7785-7790

  Torres Cortés, Gloria ^a   Ghignone, Stefano ^b   Bonfante, Paola ^c   Schüßler, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE PLANT PROTECTION   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Endobacteria; Horizontal gene transfer; Intracellular symbiont; Mycoplasma

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DENTISCUTATA HETEROGAMA; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINE; GENOMIC ISLAND; GIGASPORA MARGARITA; GLOMEROMYCOTA; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; METABOLIC CAPACITY; MOLLICUTES RELATED ENDOBACTERIUM; MORTIERELLA VERTICILLATA; MOSAICISM; MUCOROMYCOTINA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RHIZOPHAGUS IRREGULARIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; BACTERIUM; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCORRHIZA;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ENDOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; GIGASPORA MARGARITA; GLOMEROMYCOTA; MOLLICUTES; MORTIERELLA VERTICILLATA; MYCOPLASMA; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOPHAGUS;

BACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSAICISM; MYCORRHIZAE;

EID: 84935007700     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1501540112     Document Type: Article

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