Supergroup C Wolbachia, mutualist symbionts of filarial nematodes, have a distinct genome structure

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Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Comandatore, Francesco ^a,b   Cordaux, Richard ^c   Bandi, Claudio ^a   Blaxter, Mark ^d   Darby, Alistair ^e   Makepeace, Benjamin L ^e   Montagna, Matteo ^a   Sassera, Davide ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Filarial nematodes; GC skew; Genome characteristics; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; FILARIOIDEA; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FILARIOIDEA; GENOMICS; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84962252176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.150099     Document Type: Article

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