Accelerated evolution in bacterial endosymbionts of aphids.
When compared with free living bacteria, it is proposed that there are at least two endosymbiotic processes in aphids based on the A + T content as well as the increased evolutionary rate of the beta-subunit of the F-ATPase complex in different endosymbiotic bacteria. The first well established process corresponds to the integration of Buchnera aphidicola more than 150 million years ago. The other is postulated to correspond to new endosymbiotic processes in which the bacteria involved contain less A + T and show a lower increase of evolutionary rates when compared with B. aphidicola. It is proposed, therefore, that endosymbioses are active processes in aphid evolution.
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Department of Genetics, University of Valencia, Spain.
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D000818:Animals; D001042:Aphids / Q000382:microbiology*; D001482:Base Composition; D020635:Buchnera / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D007700:Kinetics; D006180:Proton-Translocating ATPases / Q000235:genetics; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013045:Species Specificity; D013559:Symbiosis
D006180:Proton-Translocating ATPases