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Interactions of chaperonin with a weakly active anthranilate synthase from the aphid endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola.
Microbial ecology - 1 Nov 2008
Huang Chia-Ying, Lee Chi-Ying, Wu Hsiao-Chen, Kuo Mei-Hwa, Lai Chi-Yung
Abstract excerpt
The endosymbiotic bacterium Buchnera provides its aphid host with essential amino acids. Buchnera is typical of intracellular symbiotic and parasitic microorganisms in having a small effective population size, which is believed to accelerate genetic drift and reduce the stability of gene products...
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