Journal article
The hypercomplex genome of an insect reproductive parasite highlights the importance of lateral gene transfer in symbiont biology
- Abstract:
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Mobile elements—plasmids and phages—are important components of microbial function and evolution via traits that they encode and their capacity to shuttle genetic material between species. We here report the unusually rich array of mobile elements within the genome of Arsenophonus nasoniae, the son-killer symbiont of the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis. This microbe’s genome has the highest prophage complement reported to date, with over 50 genomic re...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- American Society for Microbiology Publisher's website
- Journal:
- mBio Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 2
- Article number:
- e02590-19
- Publication date:
- 2020-03-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-03-02
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2150-7511
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1091032
- Local pid:
- pubs:1091032
- Deposit date:
- 2020-03-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Frost et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © 2020 Frost et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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