Chlamydiae Has Contributed at Least 55 Genes to Plantae with Predominantly Plastid Functions

Ahmed Moustafa; Adrian Reyes-Prieto; Debashish Bhattacharya

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002205

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Chlamydiae Has Contributed at Least 55 Genes to Plantae with Predominantly Plastid Functions

Ahmed Moustafa ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmed Moustafa, Adrian Reyes-Prieto

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences and Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
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Adrian Reyes-Prieto ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmed Moustafa, Adrian Reyes-Prieto

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
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Debashish Bhattacharya

* E-mail: debashi-bhattacharya@uiowa.edu

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences and Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
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Chlamydiae Has Contributed at Least 55 Genes to Plantae with Predominantly Plastid Functions

Ahmed Moustafa,
Adrian Reyes-Prieto,
Debashish Bhattacharya

Published: May 21, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002205

About the Authors

Ahmed Moustafa

Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmed Moustafa, Adrian Reyes-Prieto

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences and Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Adrian Reyes-Prieto

Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmed Moustafa, Adrian Reyes-Prieto

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Debashish Bhattacharya

* E-mail: debashi-bhattacharya@uiowa.edu

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DB AM AR. Analyzed the data: DB AM AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM. Wrote the paper: DB AM. Other: Performed the phylogenetic analyses: AR AM. Supervised the project: DB.

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