Wolbachia mCGH of Five Supergroup A Strains
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ORGANISM(S): Wolbachia pipientis
SUBMITTER: Seth Bordenstein
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-13825 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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Extensive genomic diversity of closely related Wolbachia strains.
Ishmael Nadeeza N Hotopp Julie C Dunning JCD Ioannidis Panagiotis P Biber Sarah S Sakamoto Joyce J Siozios Stefanos S Nene Vishvanath V Werren John J Bourtzis Kostas K Bordenstein Seth R SR Tettelin Hervé H
Microbiology (Reading, England) 20090423 Pt 7
Using microarray-based comparative genome hybridization (mCGH), the genomic content of Wolbachia pipientis wMel from Drosophila melanogaster was compared to the closely related Wolbachia from D. innubila (wInn), D. santomea (wSan), and three strains from D. simulans (wAu, wRi, wSim). A large number of auxiliary genes are identified in these five strains, with most absent/divergent genes being unique to a given strain. Each strain caused an average of approximately 60 genes to be removed from the ...[more]
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