Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.
Bacterial symbionts with miniscule genomes can survive by relying on gene expression by host cells or other symbionts. This system may mimic the process of organelle genome evolution.
The author is in the Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden. E-mail: siv.andersson{at}ebc.uu.se
The editors suggest the following Related Resources on Science sites:
In Science Magazine
BREVIA
Atsushi Nakabachi, Atsushi Yamashita, Hidehiro Toh, Hajime Ishikawa, Helen E. Dunbar, Nancy A. Moran, and Masahira Hattori (13 October 2006) Science314 (5797), 267.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1134196] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
REPORTS
Vicente Pérez-Brocal, Rosario Gil, Silvia Ramos, Araceli Lamelas, Marina Postigo, José Manuel Michelena, Francisco J. Silva, Andrés Moya, and Amparo Latorre (13 October 2006) Science314 (5797), 312.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1130441] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Enzymes of the shikimic acid pathway encoded in the genome of a basal metazoan, Nematostella vectensis, have microbial origins.
A. Starcevic, S. Akthar, W. C. Dunlap, J. M. Shick, D. Hranueli, J. Cullum, and P. F. Long (2008)
PNAS
105, 2533-2537
|Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »
The Orientia tsutsugamushi genome reveals massive proliferation of conjugative type IV secretion system and host cell interaction genes.
N.-H. Cho, H.-R. Kim, J.-H. Lee, S.-Y. Kim, J. Kim, S. Cha, S.-Y. Kim, A. C. Darby, H.-H. Fuxelius, J. Yin, et al. (2007)
PNAS
104, 7981-7986
|Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »
