Gene transfers from diverse bacteria compensate for reductive genome evolution in the chromatophore of Paulinella chromatophora

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 43, 2016, Pages 12214-12219

  Nowack, Eva C M ^a,b   Price, Dana C ^c   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^d   Singer, Anna ^b   Melkonian, Michael ^e   Grossman, Arthur R ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Endosymbiosis; Genome evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Organellogenesis

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMOEBA (GENUS); ARTICLE; AXENIC CULTURE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL METABOLISM; CELL ORGANELLE; CHROMATOPHORE; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME SIZE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PAULINELLA CHROMATOPHORA; PHAGOTROPH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); BACTERIAL GENOME; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLASTID; SYMBIOSIS;

AMOEBA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMATOPHORES; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PLASTIDS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85047290506     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1608016113     Document Type: Article

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