| Literature DB >> 17981967 |
Gordon R Plague1, Helen E Dunbar, Phat L Tran, Nancy A Moran.
Abstract
We found that insertion sequence (IS) elements are unusually abundant in the relatively recently evolved bacterial endosymbionts of maize weevils. Because multicopy elements can facilitate genomic recombination and deletion, this IS expansion may represent an early stage in the genomic reduction that is common in most ancient endosymbionts.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17981967 PMCID: PMC2223699 DOI: 10.1128/JB.01082-07
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490