Differential Genome Evolution Between Companion Symbionts in an Insect-Bacterial Symbiosis
ABSTRACT Obligate symbioses with bacteria allow insects to feed on otherwise unsuitable diets. Some symbionts have extremely reduced genomes and have lost many genes considered to be essential in other bacteria. To understand how symbiont genome degeneration proceeds, we compared the genomes of symb...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2014-10-01
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| Series: | mBio |
| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01697-14 |