Genome Biology
Volume 2
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MinireviewGenome interdependence in insect-bacterium symbiosesEvelyn Zientz1, Francisco J Silva2 and Roy Gross1  1Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Biozentrum, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany 2Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat de València, Polígon La Coma, s/n. 46980 Paterna (Valencia), Spain  author email corresponding author email
Genome Biology 2001,
2:reviews1032.1-1032.6doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-12-reviews1032
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Subject areas: Microbiology and parasitology, Evolution, Genome studies Abstract
Symbioses between unicellular and multicellular organisms have contributed significantly to the evolution of life on Earth. As exemplified by several studies of bacterium-insect symbioses, modern genomic techniques are providing exciting new information about the molecular basis and the biological roles of these complex relationships, revealing for instance that symbionts have lost many genes for functions that are provided by the host, but that they can provide amino acids that the host cannot synthesize. | 
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