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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Main Authors: Lockhart Peter J, Voβ Christine, Kneip Christoph, Maier Uwe G
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-01-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/30