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Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs.
BMC biology - 15 Jan 2009
Kikuchi Yoshitomo, Hosokawa Takahiro, Nikoh Naruo, Meng Xian-Ying, Kamagata Yoichi, Fukatsu Takema
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BACKGROUND: Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution have been commonly observed among obligate endocellular insect symbionts, while such examples have rarely been identified among extracellular ones, the only case reported being from gut symbiotic bacteria of stinkbugs of the family Plataspidae. Considering that gut symbiotic communities are vulnerable to invasion of foreign microbes, gut...
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