Transposable Element Loads in a Bacterial Symbiont of Weevils Are Extremely Variable | Zendy

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Transposable Element Loads in a Bacterial Symbiont of Weevils Are Extremely Variable

Author(s) -

Kevin Dougherty,

Gordon R. Plague

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

applied and environmental microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552

H-Index - 324

eISSN - 1070-6291

pISSN - 0099-2240

DOI - 10.1128/aem.01049-08

Subject(s) - transposable element , biology , intraspecific competition , bacteria , homologous chromosome , homologous recombination , genetics , recombination , evolutionary biology , genome , gene , zoology

Not only are transposable elements profuse in the bacterial endosymbiont of maize weevils, but we found that their quantities also vary approximately 10-fold among individual weevils. Because multicopy elements can facilitate homologous recombination, this insertion sequence (IS) load variability suggests that these essentially asexual bacteria may exhibit substantial intraspecific genomic variation.

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