Small but powerful, the primary endosymbiont of moss bugs, candidatus evansia muelleri, holds a reduced genome with large biosynthetic capabilities

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1875-1893

  Santos Garcia, Diego ^a   Latorre, Amparo ^a,b   Moya, Andrés ^a,b   Gibbs, George ^c   Hartung, Viktor ^d   Dettner, Konrad ^e   Kuechler, Stefan Martin ^e   Silva, Francisco J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endosymbiont; Genome reduction; Halomonadaceae; Metabolic complementation; Mutualism

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; HALOMONADACEAE; HEMIPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HALOMONADACEAE; HEMIPTERA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84911866348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu149     Document Type: Article

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