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SUBMITTER: Boscaro V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3831957 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Boscaro Vittorio V Felletti Michele M Vannini Claudia C Ackerman Matthew S MS Chain Patrick S G PS Malfatti Stephanie S Vergez Lisa M LM Shin Maria M Doak Thomas G TG Lynch Michael M Petroni Giulio G
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20131028 46
We present the complete genomic sequence of the essential symbiont Polynucleobacter necessarius (Betaproteobacteria), which is a valuable case study for several reasons. First, it is hosted by a ciliated protist, Euplotes; bacterial symbionts of ciliates are still poorly known because of a lack of extensive molecular data. Second, the single species P. necessarius contains both symbiotic and free-living strains, allowing for a comparison between closely related organisms with different ecologies ...[more]