Ongoing Transposon-Mediated Genome Reduction in the Luminous Bacterial Symbionts of Deep-Sea Ceratioid Anglerfishes
Diverse marine fish and squid form symbiotic associations with extracellular bioluminescent bacteria. These symbionts are typically free-living bacteria with large genomes, but one known lineage of symbionts has undergone genomic reduction and evolution of host dependence. It is not known why distin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2018-06-01
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| Series: | mBio |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01033-18 |