Endosymbionts of vent-dwelling metazoans in PACManus-diversity and potential adaptive features revealed by genome analysis.

This study also revealed three novel genomes of symbionts from the snails of A. boucheti Combined with a dataset of other ectosymbiont and free-living bacteria, genome comparisons of the snail endosymbionts pointed to several genetic traits that may have contributed to the lifestyle shift into the epithelial cells in ϵ-proteobacteria These findings could increase our understanding of invertebrate-endosymbiont in deep-sea ecosystems.
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Source: Applied and Environmental Microbiology - August 27, 2020 Category: Microbiology Authors: Li L, Wang M, Li L, Du Z, Sun Y, Wang X, Zhang X, Li C Tags: Appl Environ Microbiol Source Type: research