• DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2014.07.047
Corpus ID: 11839535

Sympatric Speciation in a Bacterial Endosymbiont Results in Two Genomes with the Functionality of One

@article{Leuven2014SympatricSI,
  title={Sympatric Speciation in a Bacterial Endosymbiont Results in Two Genomes with the Functionality of One},
  author={J. V. Leuven and Russell C. Meister and C. Simon and J. McCutcheon},
  journal={Cell},
  year={2014},
  volume={158},
  pages={1270-1280}
}

J. V. Leuven, Russell C. Meister, +1 author J. McCutcheon

Published 2014

Biology, Medicine

Cell

Mutualisms that become evolutionarily stable give rise to organismal interdependencies. Some insects have developed intracellular associations with communities of bacteria, where the interdependencies are manifest in patterns of complementary gene loss and retention among members of the symbiosis. Here, using comparative genomics and microscopy, we show that a three-member symbiotic community has become a four-way assemblage through a novel bacterial lineage-splitting event. In some but not all… CONTINUE READING

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