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Feldhaar, Heike ; Gross, Roy:
Genome degeneration affects both extracellular and intracellular bacterial endosymbionts.
In: Journal of Biology.
Bd. 8
(2009)
.
- 31.
ISSN 1478-5854
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/jbiol129
Abstract
The obligate intracellular bacterial endosymbionts of insects are a paradigm for reductive genome evolution. A study published recently in BMC Biology demonstrates that similar evolutionary forces shaping genome structure may also apply to extracellular endosymbionts.