The cyanobacterial endosymbiont of the unicellular algae <it>Rhopalodia gibba </it>shows reductive genome evolution
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Bacteria occur in facultative association and intracellular symbiosis with a diversity of eukaryotic hosts. Recently, we have helped to characterise an intracellular nitrogen fixing bacterium, the so-called spheroid body, located wit...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-01-01
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Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/30 |