Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria

By J. McCutcheon, N. Moran. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2011

1,388 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Insect Science, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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In Insect Science

1. A. E. Douglas
2. Philipp Engel
3. N. Moran
4. J. Wernegreen
5. H. Feldhaar

In Molecular Biology

1. A. E. Douglas
2. Scott F. Gilbert
3. Ole Lund
4. M. McFall-Ngai
5. Tomislav Domazet-Lošo
6. J. C. Thrash
7. U. Hentschel
8. V. Gupta

In Plant Science

1. A. E. Douglas
2. Tomislav Domazet-Lošo
3. N. Moran
4. Diethard Tautz
5. Andrew H. Knoll
6. Loren J. Hauser
7. T. Fukami
8. N. Pierce

Citations in the corpus

• Nine facultative endosymbionts in aphids. A review (2017, background): “Many symbionts remain only the most essential functions including genes that benefit hosts (McCutcheon and Moran, 2012).”
• The gut microbiota of insects - diversity in structure and function. (2013, background): “These genomic features are reminiscent of maternally transmitted intracellular endosymbionts (McCutcheon & Moran, 2012) and suggest that this gut bacterium has an important role in nutritional provisioning.”
• Insights from 20 years of bacterial genome sequencing (2015, background): “These newer technologies hold the promise of not only generating more sequence for less money, but they may eventually eliminate the concept of draft microbial genomes all together.”
• Multiorganismal Insects: Diversity and Function of Resident Microorganisms (2014, background): “Microbial involvement in essential amino acid provisioning in other plant sap–feeding insects is indicated by the apparently universal incidence of symbioses in these insects (16) and by the retention of essential amino acid biosynthesis genes in all symbionts tested (76).”
• Implications of streamlining theory for microbial ecology (2014, background): “Genome reduction in SPC organisms occurs by evolutionary processes that are distinctly different from those that define streamlining evolution, and leaves different genomic signatures (McCutcheon and Moran, 2012).”
• BPGA- an ultra-fast pan-genome analysis pipeline (2016, background): “…fact that host restricted commensal and pathogenic bacteria often undergo genome reduction and maintain relatively small genome sizes as compared to the free-living bacterial species, it would be intriguing to examine whether these two genomes are undergoing the process of genome reduction 38–40 .”
• Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences (2013, background): “…in symbiosis, a long history of intimate association with insects has resulted in highly reduced genomes in their intracellular symbionts; for example, the endosymbiont Candidatus Hodgkinia cicadi-cola of the Arizona cicada has a genome size < 144 kb, smaller than that of some organelles (35).”
• RELAX: detecting relaxed selection in a phylogenetic framework. (2014, neutral): “gene loss and AT bias) (McCutcheon and Moran, 2012).”