Ongoing Transposon-Mediated Genome Reduction in the Luminous Bacterial Symbionts of Deep-Sea Ceratioid Anglerfishes

ABSTRACT 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 w...

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Main Authors: Tory A. Hendry, Lindsay L. Freed, Dana Fader, Danté Fenolio, Tracey T. Sutton, Jose V. Lopez
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/9118370786c24edf93e591ee5c0c75ec
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