Distribution, Expression, and Motif Variability of Ankyrin Domain Genes in Wolbachia pipientis
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Distribution, expression, and motif variability of ankyrin domain genes in Wolbachia pipientis.
The endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia pipientis infects a wide range of arthropods, in which it induces a variety of reproductive phenotypes, including cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), parthenogenesis, male killing, and reversal of genetic sex determination. The recent sequencing and annotation of the first Wolbachia genome revealed an unusually high number of genes encoding ankyrin domain (AN...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.15.5136-5145.2005