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List of works by Jennifer J. Wernegreen

50 Million Years of Genomic Stasis in Endosymbiotic Bacteria

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A conservative test of genetic drift in the endosymbiotic bacterium Buchnera: slightly deleterious mutations in the chaperonin groEL.

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A strong effect of AT mutational bias on amino acid usage in Buchnera is mitigated at high-expression genes

scientific article published in September 2002

Ancient bacterial endosymbionts of insects: Genomes as sources of insight and springboards for inquiry

scientific article published on 25 April 2017

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

scientific article (publication date: 26 February 2013)

Bacteriophage flux in endosymbionts (Wolbachia): infection frequency, lateral transfer, and recombination rates

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COSPECIATION BETWEEN BACTERIAL ENDOSYMBIONTS (BUCHNERA) AND A RECENT RADIATION OF APHIDS (UROLEUCON) AND PITFALLS OF TESTING FOR PHYLOGENETIC CONGRUENCE

scholarly article by Marta A. Clark et al published 2000 in Evolution

Can't take the heat: high temperature depletes bacterial endosymbionts of ants

scientific article published on 20 July 2013

Correction: The Tripartite Associations between Bacteriophage, and Arthropods

scholarly article by Seth R. Bordenstein et al published 27 October 2006 in PLOS Pathogens

Deep divergence and rapid evolutionary rates in gut-associated Acetobacteraceae of ants

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Endosymbiont evolution: predictions from theory and surprises from genomes

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Endosymbiont gene functions impaired and rescued by polymerase infidelity at poly(A) tracts.

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Endosymbiosis

scientific article published on July 24, 2012

Endosymbiosis: lessons in conflict resolution

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First impressions in a glowing host-microbe partnership

scientific article published on August 2013

For better or worse: genomic consequences of intracellular mutualism and parasitism

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Gene expression level influences amino acid usage, but not codon usage, in the tsetse fly endosymbiont Wigglesworthia

scientific article published in September 2003

Gene expression levels influence amino acid usage and evolutionary rates in endosymbiotic bacteria

scientific article published in June 2005

Genome Evolution in an Insect Cell: Distinct Features of an Ant-Bacterial Partnership

scientific article published on April 1, 2003

Genome evolution in an ancient bacteria-ant symbiosis: parallel gene loss among Blochmannia spanning the origin of the ant tribe Camponotini

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Genome evolution in bacterial endosymbionts of insects

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Genome sequence of Blochmannia pennsylvanicus indicates parallel evolutionary trends among bacterial mutualists of insects

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Genomic erosion and extensive horizontal gene transfer in gut-associated Acetobacteraceae

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Host-symbiont stability and fast evolutionary rates in an ant-bacterium association: cospeciation of camponotus species and their endosymbionts, candidatus blochmannia

scientific article published in February 2004

In it for the long haul: evolutionary consequences of persistent endosymbiosis

scientific article published on 18 September 2017

Mutation exposed: a neutral explanation for extreme base composition of an endosymbiont genome

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Mutualism meltdown in insects: bacteria constrain thermal adaptation

scientific article published on February 28, 2012

Nonhomogeneous model of sequence evolution indicates independent origins of primary endosymbionts within the enterobacteriales (gamma-Proteobacteria)

scientific article published on 03 November 2004

One nutritional symbiosis begat another: phylogenetic evidence that the ant tribe Camponotini acquired Blochmannia by tending sap-feeding insects

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Proteomic Analysis of an Unculturable Bacterial Endosymbiont (Blochmannia) Reveals High Abundance of Chaperonins and Biosynthetic Enzymes

scientific article published on December 27, 2012

Purifying Selection, Sequence Composition, and Context-Specific Indel Mutations Shape Intraspecific Variation in a Bacterial Endosymbiont

scientific article published on November 24, 2011

Reduced Selective Constraint in Endosymbionts: Elevation in Radical Amino Acid Replacements Occurs Genome-Wide

scientific article published on December 14, 2011

Remaining flexible in old alliances: functional plasticity in constrained mutualisms

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Sequence Context of Indel Mutations and Their Effect on Protein Evolution in a Bacterial Endosymbiont

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Slip into something more functional: selection maintains ancient frameshifts in homopolymeric sequences

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Strategies of Genomic Integration Within Insect-Bacterial Mutualisms

scientific article published on August 1, 2012

Subsidized or stressed? Shifts in freshwater benthic microbial metagenomics along a gradient of alkaline coal mine drainage

scholarly article

The roles of positive and negative selection in the molecular evolution of insect endosymbionts

scientific article published in August 2005

The tripartite associations between bacteriophage, Wolbachia, and arthropods.

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Thermally adaptive tradeoffs in closely related marine bacterial strains.

scientific article published on 27 January 2015

Toward a Wolbachia multilocus sequence typing system: discrimination of Wolbachia strains present in Drosophila species

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Unprecedented loss of ammonia assimilation capability in a urease-encoding bacterial mutualist

scientific article published on December 2, 2010

Widespread recombination throughout Wolbachia genomes

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