Endosymbiont evolution: Predictions from theory and surprises from genomes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1360, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 16-35

  Wernegreen, Jennifer J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endosymbiosis; Genome reduction; Molecular evolution; Mutualism; Neutrality; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOST CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; NONHUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PREDICTION; PURIFYING SELECTION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; FORECASTING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FORECASTING; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84949319887     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12740     Document Type: Article

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