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={James T. Van Leuven and Russell C Meister and Chris Simon and John P. McCutcheon},
  journal={Cell},
  year={2014},
  volume={158},
  pages={1270-1280}
}
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