Intense Transpositional Activity of Insertion Sequences in an Ancient Obligate Endosymbiont
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Intense Transpositional Activity of Insertion Sequences in an Ancient Obligate Endosymbiont
The streamlined genomes of ancient obligate endosymbionts generally lack transposable elements, such as insertion sequences (IS). Yet, the genome of Wolbachia, one of the most abundant bacterial endosymbionts on Earth, is littered with IS. Such a paradox raises the question as to why there are so many ISs in the genome of this ancient endosymbiont. To address this question, we investigated IS t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biology and Evolution
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0737-4038,1537-1719
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn134