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Genome reduction of the aphid endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola in a recent evolutionary time scale.
Gene - 1 Mar 2007
Gómez-Valero Laura, Silva Francisco J, Christophe Simon Jean, Latorre Amparo
Abstract excerpt
Genome reduction, a typical feature of symbiotic bacteria, was analyzed in the last stages of evolution of Buchnera aphidicola, the primary aphid endosymbiont, in two neutrally evolving regions: the pseudogene cmk and an intergenic region. These two regions were examined in endosymbionts from several lineages of their aphid host Rhopalosiphum padi, and different species of the same genus, whose divergence times...
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