Microbial minimalism: genome reduction in bacterial pathogens.

By N. Moran. Cell, 2002

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Subfields: Genetics, Insect Science, Molecular Biology

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Molecular approaches to study the insect gut symbiotic microbiota at the ‘omics’ age (2010, background): “Overall, it is estimated that a majority of members of the Insecta are involved in some type of symbiosis (Moran, 2002; Moran, 2007; Moran & Telang, 1998).”
Ψ-Φ: Exploring the outer limits of bacterial pseudogenes (2004, background): “Because pseudogenes represent an initial phase in the process of genome degradation occurring in bacterial pathogens and symbionts (Moran 2002), the preponderance of strainspecific pseudogenes could reflect recent changes in the lifestyles of each of these enterics.”
Plant-Microbe Symbioses: A Continuum from Commensalism to Parasitism (2004, background): “In the case of obligate symbionts of non-plant hosts, there is frequently a reduction in genome size (Moran, 2002).”
The Wolbachia Genome of Brugia malayi: Endosymbiont Evolution within a Human Pathogenic Nematode (2005, background): “[111,112,152,153,154,155] suggests the specific elimination of nonessential DNA is a result of reduced selection on”
Bacterial-Fungal Interactions: Hyphens between Agricultural, Clinical, Environmental, and Food Microbiologists (2011, background): “The first complete genome sequence of an intrahyphal bacterium, the rhizoxin-producing bacterium Burkholderia rhizoxinica (207), has revealed a genome size reduction compared to the genome sizes of other Burkholderia bacteria, a characteristic that is common in the genomes of many bacteria that have”
Large-Scale Conformational Transitions and Dimerization Are Encoded in the Amino-Acid Sequences of Hsp70 Chaperones (2015, neutral): “Indeed, because bacterial genomes are likely under evolutionary pressure to remain short [61,62], we make the hypothesis that bacteria cannot afford having too many specialized versions of the same protein.”
The Evolution and Emergence of RNA Viruses (2009, background): “On the one hand, it is clear that some cellular species, particularly endosymbiotic bacteria which have an extremely intimate relationship with their hosts, have been able to streamline their genomes by discarding those genes whose functions can be provided by the host (Moran 2002).”
Vertical Transmission of a Pentatomid Caeca-Associated Symbiont (2006, background): “Small AT-rich genomes are probably a response to the similar, simpliÞed, ecological conditions faced by endosymbionts (Herbeck et al. 2003) and therefore represent convergent evolution because of similar evolutionary pressures (Moran 2002).”
The bacterial species definition in the genomic era (2006, background): “The ecological niche (environment) ultimately determines and shapes the evolution of the gene content of an organism (Moran 2002; Konstantinidis & Tiedje 2004).”
Genome Rearrangement Distances and Gene Order Phylogeny in γ-Proteobacteria (2005, background): “Second, genes may be removed in a single 14 event or as a consequence of a process of progressive disintegration, which produces gaps 15 when the genomes of two species are compared (Andersson and Andersson 2001; Silva, 16 Latorre and Moya 2001; Moran 2002).”