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Host's guardian protein counters degenerative symbiont evolution.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Jun 2021
Koga Ryuichi, Tanahashi Masahiko, Nikoh Naruo, Hosokawa Takahiro, Meng Xian-Ying, Moriyama Minoru, Fukatsu Takema
Abstract excerpt
Microbial symbioses significantly contribute to diverse organisms, where long-lasting associations tend to result in symbiont genome erosion, uncultivability, extinction, and replacement. How such inherently deteriorating symbiosis can be harnessed to stable partnership is of general evolutionary interest. Here, we report the discovery of a host protein essential for sustaining symbiosis. Plataspid stinkbugs...
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