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Small genomes are still shrinking
Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020327-03
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Buchnera is a mutualistic intracellular symbiotic bacterium found in many aphids and over millions of years it has experienced a dramatic decrease in genome size, retaining only those genes essential for its specialized lifestyle. In March 19 Proceedings of National Academy of Science, Rosario Gil and colleagues from Universitat de Valencia, Spain, show that the Buchnera genome is still undergoing a reductive process.
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