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Recurrent symbiont recruitment from fungal parasites in cicadas

Diverse insects are associated with ancient bacterial symbionts, whose genomes have often suffered drastic reduction and degeneration. In extreme cases, such symbiont genomes seem almost unable to sustain the basic cellular functioning, which comprises an open question in the evolution of symbiosis....

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Autores principales: Matsuura, Yu, Moriyama, Minoru, Łukasik, Piotr, Vanderpool, Dan, Tanahashi, Masahiko, Meng, Xian-Ying, McCutcheon, John P., Fukatsu, Takema
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6042066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29891654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803245115