Type II toxin-antitoxin distribution and adaptive aspects on Xanthomonas genomes: Focus on Xanthomonas citri

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Martins, Paula M M ^a   Machado, Marcos A ^a   Silva, Nicholas V ^a   Takita, Marco A ^a   De Souza, Alessandra A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO AGRONÔMICO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anti addiction model; Citrus canker; Death factor; EDF; Gene loss

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE DELETION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOXIN ANTITOXIN SYSTEM; XANTHOMONAS CITRI;

EID: 84973579931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00652     Document Type: Article

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