Entry
Org code
bua
Name
Buchnera aphidicola LL01, endosymbiont of Acyrthosiphon pisum (pea aphid)
Annotation
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Taxonomy
Lineage
Bacteria; Pseudomonadota; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Erwiniaceae; Buchnera
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Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601 ]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610 ]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611 ]
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Data source
Keywords
Endosymbiont
Comment
Intracellular bacterium, which provides its aphid partner with essential amino acids (EAAs).
Parthenogenetic clones of Acyrthosiphon pisum Harris were originally obtained from Medicago sativa.
Chromosome
Circular
Sequence
Length
641799
Statistics
Number of nucleotides: 641799
Number of protein genes: 577
Number of RNA genes: 35
Created
2012
Reference
Authors
MacDonald SJ, Thomas GH, Douglas AE
Title
Genetic and metabolic determinants of nutritional phenotype in an insect-bacterial symbiosis.
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