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Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyEndosymbiotic interactions have long played fundamental roles in shaping the evolution and diversification of eukaryotes. However, we still have a limited understanding of how ecological processes govern the distribution of endosymbionts that are still ...
James G. DuBose +6 more
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mBio, 2018 Endosymbiotic bacteria associated with eukaryotic hosts are omnipresent in nature, particularly in insects. Studying the bacterial side of host-symbiont interactions is, however, often limited by the unculturability and genetic intractability of the ...
Florent Masson +4 more
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The Symbiosome: Legume and Rhizobia Co-evolution toward a Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle?
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 In legume nodules, symbiosomes containing endosymbiotic rhizobial bacteria act as temporary plant organelles that are responsible for nitrogen fixation, these bacteria develop mutual metabolic dependence with the host legume.
Teodoro Coba de la Peña +5 more
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Extending the Modern Synthesis: The evolution of ecosystems [PDF]
, 2010 The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis formalizes the role of variation, heredity, differential reproduction and mutation in population genetics. Here we explore a mathematical structure, based on the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory, that ...
Rodrick Wallace
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Stochastic Fluctuations of the Facultative Endosymbiont Wolbachia due to Finite Host Population Size
Ecology and EvolutionMany insects and other animals host heritable endosymbionts that alter host fitness and reproduction. The prevalence of facultative endosymbionts can fluctuate in host populations across time and geography for reasons that are poorly understood.
Jason M. Graham +2 more
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Host-Encoded Aminotransferase Import into the Endosymbiotic Bacteria Nardonella of Red Palm Weevil
InsectsSymbiotic systems are intimately integrated at multiple levels. Host–endosymbiont metabolic complementarity in amino acid biosynthesis is especially important for sap-feeding insects and their symbionts. In weevil–Nardonella endosymbiosis, the final step
Ying Huang +3 more
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Abstract All eukaryotes harbor one or more remnants of ancient bacterial-derived endosymbionts, all of which have experienced considerable reduction in genome size. The colonization of an alphaproteobacterium in the stem eukaryote ultimately became the mitochondrion, to which membrane bioenergetics were relocated from the plasma membrane
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Frontiers in MicrobiologyEndosymbiotic bacteria (ESB) have important effects on their hosts, contributing to its growth, reproduction and biological functions. Although the effects of exogenous bacteria on the trap formation of nematode-trapping fungi (NTF) have been revealed ...
Hua Zheng +9 more
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Evolution of small prokaryotic genomes
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 As revealed by genome sequencing, the biology of prokaryotes with reduced genomes is strikingly diverse. These include free-living prokaryotes with ~800 genes as well as endosymbiotic bacteria with as few as ~140 genes.
David José Martínez-Cano +6 more
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Paulinella chromatophora – rethinking the transition from endosymbiont to organelle
Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2014 Eukaryotes co-opted photosynthetic carbon fixation from prokaryotes by engulfing a cyanobacterium and stably integrating it as a photosynthetic organelle (plastid) in a process known as primary endosymbiosis.
Eva C.M. Nowack
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