Loss of genes related to Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) and implications for reductive genome evolution in symbionts of deep-sea vesicomyid clams.

Loss of genes related to Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) and implications for reductive genome evolution in symbionts of deep-sea vesicomyid clams.

Intracellular thioautotrophic symbionts of deep-sea vesicomyid clams lack some DNA repair genes and are thought to be undergoing reductive genome evolution (RGE). In this study, we addressed two questions, 1) how these symbionts lost their DNA repair genes and 2) how such losses affect RGE. For the...

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Main Authors: Shigeru Shimamura, Takashi Kaneko, Genki Ozawa, Mamiko Nishino Matsumoto, Takeru Koshiishi, Yoshihiro Takaki, Chiaki Kato, Ken Takai, Takao Yoshida, Katsunori Fujikura, James P Barry, Tadashi Maruyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5310779?pdf=render

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