Positive Selection Acting on a Surface Membrane Protein of the Plant-Pathogenic Phytoplasmas
- 1 May 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 188 (9), 3424-3428
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.188.9.3424-3428.2006
Abstract
Phytoplasmas are plant-pathogenic bacteria that cause numerous diseases. This study shows a strong positive selection on the phytoplasma antigenic membrane protein (Amp). The ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitutions was >1 with all the methods we tested. The clear positive selections imply an important biological role for Amp in host-bacterium interactions.Keywords
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