Lifestyle Evolution in Cyanobacterial Symbionts of Sponges

ABSTRACT The “Candidatus Synechococcus spongiarum” group includes different clades of cyanobacteria with high 16S rRNA sequence identity (~99%) and is the most abundant and widespread cyanobacterial symbiont of marine sponges. The first draft genome of a “Ca. Synechococcus spongiarum” group member w...

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Main Authors: Ilia Burgsdorf, Beate M. Slaby, Kim M. Handley, Markus Haber, Jochen Blom, Christopher W. Marshall, Jack A. Gilbert, Ute Hentschel, Laura Steindler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2015-07-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00391-15