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SUBMITTER: de Man TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4822581 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Man Tom J B TJ Stajich Jason E JE Kubicek Christian P CP Teiling Clotilde C Chenthamara Komal K Atanasova Lea L Druzhinina Irina S IS Levenkova Natasha N Birnbaum Stephanie S L SS Barribeau Seth M SM Bozick Brooke A BA Suen Garret G Currie Cameron R CR Gerardo Nicole M NM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160314 13
Many microorganisms with specialized lifestyles have reduced genomes. This is best understood in beneficial bacterial symbioses, where partner fidelity facilitates loss of genes necessary for living independently. Specialized microbial pathogens may also exhibit gene loss relative to generalists. Here, we demonstrate that Escovopsis weberi, a fungal parasite of the crops of fungus-growing ants, has a reduced genome in terms of both size and gene content relative to closely related but less speci ...[more]