Postsymbiotic plasmid acquisition and evolution of the repA1-replicon in Buchnera aphidicola.

Autor: Van Ham, Roeland C.H.J., Gonzalez-Candelas, Fernando
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; 09/26/2000, Vol. 97 Issue 20, p10855, 6p, 7 Diagrams, 2 Charts
Abstrakt: Describes three Buchnera plasmids, obtained from species of the aphid host families Lachnidae and Pemphigidae. Symbiotic associations of insects with bacteria; Major processes governing Buchnera genome evolution; Implications of the presence of a repA1-replicon in the repA1 family of Buchnera plasmids.
Databáze: Complementary Index