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Abstract
Prokaryotic symbionts are common in invertebrates and play an essential metabolic role in deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities. Complete genome sequences of bacterial endosymbionts of two deep-sea clams are providing new insights into evolutionary genome reduction.Mesh:
Year: 2007 PMID: 17610830 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.04.035
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN: 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834