Genome reduction and horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of Endomicrobia—rise and fall of an intracellular symbiosis with termite gut flagellates

Genome reduction and horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of Endomicrobia—rise and fall of an intracellular symbiosis with termite gut flagellates

ABSTRACT Bacterial endosymbionts of eukaryotic hosts typically experience massive genome reduction, but the underlying evolutionary processes are often obscured by the lack of free-living relatives. Endomicrobia, a family-level lineage of host-associated bacteria in the phylum Elusimicrobiota that c...

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Main Authors: Undine S. Mies, Vincent Hervé, Tom Kropp, Katja Platt, David Sillam-Dussès, Jan Šobotník, Andreas Brune
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2024-06-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
termites
Endomicrobiaceae
Parabasalia
endosymbionts
lateral gene transfer
convergent evolution
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00826-24

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