Article
Marine sediments illuminate Chlamydiae diversity and evolution
2019-03-16
Abstract excerpt
The bacterial phylum Chlamydiae, which is so far comprised of obligate symbionts of eukaryotic hosts, are well-known as human and animal pathogens 1-3 . However, the Chlamydiae also include so-called environmental lineages 4-6 that primarily infect microbial eukaryotes 7 . Studying environmental chlamydiae, whose genomes display extended metabolic capabilities compared to their pathogenic relatives 8-10 has pr...
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- Literature Corpus work
- bf2d3f2f-161f-5339-9639-b63613f9c28b
- DOI
- 10.1101/577767
