The 160-kilobase genome of the bacterial endosymbiont Carsonella

被引：411

作者：

Nakabachi, Atsushi ^{[1
]}

Yamashita, Atsushi

Toh, Hidehiro

Ishikawa, Hajime

Dunbar, Helen E.

Moran, Nancy A.

Hattori, Masahira

机构：

[1] RIKEN, Environm Mol Biol Lab, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan

[2] Univ Arizona, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

[3] Kitasato Univ, Kitasato Inst Life Sci, Kanagawa 2288555, Japan

[4] Kitasato Inst, Ctr Basic Res, Minato Ku, Tokyo 1088641, Japan

[5] Univ Air, Sch Gen Educ, Chiba 2618586, Japan

[6] Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Frontier Sci, Chiba 2778561, Japan

[7] RIKEN, Genom Sci Ctr, Genome Core Technol Facil, Kanagawa 2300045, Japan

来源：

SCIENCE | 2006年 / 314卷 / 5797期

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D O I：

10.1126/science.1134196

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Although densely packed with genes, the tiny genome of an insect symbiont lacks some genes for essential functions, suggesting that it may be evolving into an organelle.

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页码：267 / 267

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