Genome degeneration affects both extracellular and intracellular bacterial endosymbionts
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The obligate intracellular bacterial endosymbionts of insects are a paradigm for reductive genome evolution. A study published recently in BMC Biology demonstrates that similar evolutionary forces shaping genome structure may also apply to extracellular endosymbionts.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of Biology
دوره 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009