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Metagenome diversity illuminates the origins of pathogen effectors.
mBio - 8 May 2024
Lehman Stephanie S, Verhoeve Victoria I, Driscoll Timothy P, Beckmann John F, Gillespie Joseph J
Abstract excerpt
Recent metagenome-assembled genome (MAG) analyses have profoundly impacted Rickettsiology systematics. The discovery of basal lineages (novel families Mitibacteraceae and Athabascaceae) with predicted extracellular lifestyles exposed an evolutionary timepoint for the transition to host dependency, which seemingly occurred independent of mitochondrial evolution. Notably, these basal rickettsiae carry the...
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