Bacterial endosymbionts: genome reduction in a hot spot.
Prokaryotic symbionts are common in invertebrates and play an essential metabolic role in deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities. Complete genome sequences of bacterial endosymbionts of two deep-sea clams are providing new insights into evolutionary genome reduction.
Lane
Christopher E
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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. c.lane@dal.ca
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D049872:Bivalvia / Q000382:microbiology*; D017753:Ecosystem; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D005880:Gills / Q000382:microbiology*; D006358:Hot Temperature; D010140:Pacific Ocean; D013559:Symbiosis / Q000235:genetics*