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Mobile elements create strain-level variation in the services conferred by an aphid symbiont.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2023
Patel Vilas, Lynn-Bell Nicole, Chevignon Germain, Kucuk Roy A, Higashi Clesson H V, Carpenter Melissa, Russell Jacob A, Oliver Kerry M
Abstract excerpt
Heritable, facultative symbionts are common in arthropods, often functioning in host defence. Despite moderately reduced genomes, facultative symbionts retain evolutionary potential through mobile genetic elements (MGEs). MGEs form the primary basis of strain-level variation in genome content and architecture, and often correlate with variability in symbiont-mediated phenotypes. In pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon...
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