Cicada Endosymbionts Have tRNAs That Are Correctly Processed Despite Having Genomes That Do Not Encode All of the tRNA Processing Machinery

Cicada Endosymbionts Have tRNAs That Are Correctly Processed Despite Having Genomes That Do Not Encode All of the tRNA Processing Machinery

The smallest bacterial genomes, in the range of about 0.1 to 0.5 million base pairs, are commonly found in the nutritional endosymbionts of insects. These tiny genomes are missing genes that encode proteins and RNAs required for the translation of mRNAs, one of the most highly conserved and importan...

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Main Authors: James T. Van Leuven, Meng Mao, Denghui D. Xing, Gordon M. Bennett, John P. McCutcheon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-06-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
endosymbionts
evolutionary biology
genomics
RNAseq
symbiosis
tRNA maturation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01950-18

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https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01950-18

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