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A small microbial genome: the end of a long symbiotic relationship?

scientific article

Analysis of and function predictions for previously conserved hypothetical or putative proteins in Blochmannia floridanus

scientific article

Chromosomal stasis versus plasmid plasticity in aphid endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola.

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Comparative Transcriptomics of Fat Bodies between Symbiotic and Quasi-Aposymbiotic Adult Females of Blattella germanica with Emphasis on the Metabolic Integration with Its Endosymbiont Blattabacterium and Its Immune System

scientific article published on 11 April 2024

Comparative molecular evolution of primary (Buchnera) and secondary symbionts of aphids based on two protein-coding genes

scientific article published in August 2002

Comparative sequence analysis of Mycobacterium leprae and the new leprosy-causing Mycobacterium lepromatosis

scientific article published on 24 July 2009

Complete genome sequence of "Candidatus Portiera aleyrodidarum" BT-QVLC, an obligate symbiont that supplies amino acids and carotenoids to Bemisia tabaci

scientific article published on December 2012

Determination of the core of a minimal bacterial gene set

scientific article published in September 2004

Differential annotation of tRNA genes with anticodon CAT in bacterial genomes

scientific article published on 27 October 2006

Evolution of the leucine gene cluster in Buchnera aphidicola: insights from chromosomal versions of the cluster

scientific article (publication date: May 2004)

Extreme genome reduction in Buchnera spp.: toward the minimal genome needed for symbiotic life

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

scientific article published in June 2005

Genome degeneration and adaptation in a nascent stage of symbiosis

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Genome economization in the endosymbiont of the wood roach Cryptocercus punctulatus due to drastic loss of amino acid synthesis capabilities

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

Genome evolution in the primary endosymbiont of whiteflies sheds light on their divergence

scientific article published on 25 February 2015

Genome rearrangement distances and gene order phylogeny in gamma-Proteobacteria

scientific article published on 16 March 2005

Genome reduction and potential metabolic complementation of the dual endosymbionts in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci

scientific article published on 21 March 2015

Genome size reduction through multiple events of gene disintegration in Buchnera APS.

scientific article published in November 2001

Identification and separation of PCR products based on their GC content by denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography

scientific article published in November 2004

Immunological detection of phenylalanine hydroxylase protein in Drosophila melanogaster ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 1992

Metabolic networks of Sodalis glossinidius: a systems biology approach to reductive evolution

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Mobile genetic element proliferation and gene inactivation impact over the genome structure and metabolic capabilities of Sodalis glossinidius, the secondary endosymbiont of tsetse flies

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Molecular characterization of the leucine cluster in Buchnera sp. strain PSY, a primary endosymbiont of the aphid Pemphigus spyrothecae

scientific article published on May 2002

Molecular epidemiology studies on the immigrant population in Spain

scientific article published on November 2014

Nature lessons: The whitefly bacterial endosymbiont is a minimal amino acid factory with unusual energetics

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

No exception to the rule: Candidatus Portiera aleyrodidarum cell wall revisited

scientific article published on 19 September 2014

Occurrence of a common binding site in Mamestra brassicae, Phthorimaea operculella, and Spodoptera exigua for the insecticidal crystal proteins CryIA from Bacillus thuringiensis.

scientific article published on July 1997

On the age of leprosy

scientific article (publication date: February 2014)

Patterns and rates of nucleotide substitution, insertion and deletion in the endosymbiont of ants Blochmannia floridanus.

scientific article published in October 2008

Plasmids in the aphid endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola with the smallest genomes. A puzzling evolutionary story.

scientific article published on 18 January 2006

Postsymbiotic plasmid acquisition and evolution of the repA1-replicon in Buchnera aphidicola.

scientific article published on September 2000

Prephenate dehydratase from the aphid endosymbiont (Buchnera) displays changes in the regulatory domain that suggest its desensitization to inhibition by phenylalanine.

scientific article published on May 2000

Reconstructing the ancestor of Mycobacterium leprae: the dynamics of gene loss and genome reduction.

scientific article published on 10 July 2007

Reductive genome evolution in Buchnera aphidicola

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Slow and Fast Evolving Endosymbiont Lineages: Positive Correlation between the Rates of Synonymous and Non-Synonymous Substitution

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Small but powerful, the primary endosymbiont of moss bugs, Candidatus Evansia muelleri, holds a reduced genome with large biosynthetic capabilities

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Tempo and mode of early gene loss in endosymbiotic bacteria from insects

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The All-Rounder Sodalis: A New Bacteriome-Associated Endosymbiont of the Lygaeoid Bug Henestaris halophilus (Heteroptera: Henestarinae) and a Critical Examination of Its Evolution

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The evolutionary fate of nonfunctional DNA in the bacterial endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola.

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The frontier between cell and organelle: genome analysis of Candidatus Carsonella ruddii

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The genome of Cardinium cBtQ1 provides insights into genome reduction, symbiont motility, and its settlement in Bemisia tabaci

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The genome sequence of Blochmannia floridanus: comparative analysis of reduced genomes

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Two host clades, two bacterial arsenals: evolution through gene losses in facultative endosymbionts

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Whole-genome sequence of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia D457, a clinical isolate and a model strain.

scientific article published on July 2012

Why are the genomes of endosymbiotic bacteria so stable?

scientific article published in April 2003

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