50 Million Years of Genomic Stasis in Endosymbiotic Bacteria

By I. Tamas, Lisa Klasson, Björn Canbäck, A. Näslund, A. Eriksson, J. Wernegreen, J. Sandström, N. Moran, S. Andersson. Science, 2002

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Subfields: Insect Science, Plant Science

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Phylogenomics of the Reproductive Parasite Wolbachia pipientis wMel: A Streamlined Genome Overrun by Mobile Genetic Elements (2004, positive): “The absence of recombination in Buchnera is supported by the lack of genome rearrangements in their recent evolution (Tamas et al. 2002).”
Genome Rearrangement Distances and Gene Order Phylogeny in γ-Proteobacteria (2005, background): “The same situation 9 arose between the B. aphidicola strains BAp and BSg.”
Metagenomics: genomic analysis of microbial communities. (2004, background): “The complete genome sequence for the bacterium revealed a complex biochemical symbiosis between the partners in which each partner had lost biochemical functions that the other conducted for both of them (112).”
Determination of the Core of a Minimal Bacterial Gene Set (2004, background): “Although lig was previously annotated as a pseudogene in B. aphidicola BSg due to the absence of the C-terminal protein end (80), it has been reannotated as a functional gene encoding the catalytic domain of the protein but with the absence of the BRCT domain (28).”
The Wolbachia Genome of Brugia malayi: Endosymbiont Evolution within a Human Pathogenic Nematode (2005, background): “, whereas other mechanisms of genome reduction were probably involved in the evolution of gamma-proteobacterial endosymbionts [109,120,121,122,123,164] Comparative genome analysis highlights the different metabolic capabilities that render endosymbionts indispensable to their hosts [108,119,121].”
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Phloem amino acids and the host plant range of the polyphagous aphid, Aphis fabae (2003, background): “…variation in aphid requirement for methionine is of particular interest because the complete genome sequences of Buchnera (from Acyrthosiphon pisum and Schizaphis graminum) suggest that these bacteria lack the capacity to synthesize methionine (Shigenobu et al., 2000; Tamas et al., 2002).”
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