Entry
Org code
bak
Name
Buchnera aphidicola Ak, endosymbiont of Acyrthosiphon kondoi (blue alfalfa aphid)
Annotation
yesShow organism
Taxonomy
Lineage
Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; 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
Aphid hosts.
Isofemale lines of A. kondoi were established from single parthenogenic females collected in Tucson, AZ.
A. kondoi was collected from Medicago sativa (alfalfa) on 21 March 2007.
Chromosome
Circular
Sequence
Length
641794
Plasmid
pTrp; Circular
Sequence
Length
3645
Plasmid
pLeu; Circular
Sequence
Length
7784
Statistics
Number of nucleotides: 653223
Number of protein genes: 569
Number of RNA genes: 38
Created
2012
Reference
Authors
Degnan PH, Ochman H, Moran NA
Title
Sequence conservation and functional constraint on intergenic spacers in reduced genomes of the obligate symbiont Buchnera.
Journal