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The process of genome shrinkage in the obligate symbiont Buchnera aphidicola

Nancy A Moran* and Alex Mira

Genome Biology 2001, 2:research0054-research0054.12 doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-12-research0054

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Mobile genetic element proliferation and gene inactivation impact over the genome structure and metabolic capabilities of Sodalis glossinidius, the secondary endosymbiont of tsetse flies

Eugeni Belda, Andrés Moya, Stephen Bentley, Francisco J Silva BMC Genomics 2010, 11:449 (22 July 2010)

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Massive comparative genomic analysis reveals convergent evolution of specialized bacteria

Vicky Merhej, Manuela Royer-Carenzi, Pierre Pontarotti, Didier Raoult Biology Direct 2009, 4:13 (10 April 2009)

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Complex chloroplast RNA metabolism: just debugging the genetic programme?

Uwe G Maier, Andrew Bozarth, Helena T Funk, Stefan Zauner, Stefan A Rensing, Christian Schmitz-Linneweber, Thomas Börner, Michael Tillich BMC Biology 2008, 6:36 (28 August 2008)

The surprising complexity of RNA processing in higher plant chloroplasts appears to have evolved to suppress point mutations that accumulated, as a result of genetic drift, after the transition of plants from water to land.

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The cyanobacterial endosymbiont of the unicellular algae Rhopalodia gibba shows reductive genome evolution

Christoph Kneip, Christine Voβ, Peter J Lockhart, Uwe G Maier BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:30 (28 January 2008)

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Analysis of gene order data supports vertical inheritance of the leukotoxin operon and genome rearrangements in the 5' flanking region in genus Mannheimia

Jesper Larsen, Peter Kuhnert, Joachim Frey, Henrik Christensen, Magne Bisgaard, John E Olsen BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:184 (3 October 2007)

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Conservation of the links between gene transcription and chromosomal organization in the highly reduced genome of Buchnera aphidicola

José Viñuelas, Federica Calevro, Didier Remond, Jacques Bernillon, Yvan Rahbé, Gérard Febvay, Jean-Michel Fayard, Hubert Charles BMC Genomics 2007, 8:143 (4 June 2007)

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Stripped-down DNA repair in a highly reduced parasite

Erin E Gill, Naomi M Fast BMC Molecular Biology 2007, 8:24 (20 March 2007)

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A global gene evolution analysis on Vibrionaceae family using phylogenetic profile

Nicola Vitulo, Alessandro Vezzi, Chiara Romualdi, Stefano Campanaro, Giorgio Valle BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8(Suppl 1):S23 (8 March 2007)

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Tempo and mode of early gene loss in endosymbiotic bacteria from insects

F Delmotte, C Rispe, J Schaber, FJ Silva, A Moya BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:56 (18 July 2006)

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Phylogenomic analysis of the GIY-YIG nuclease superfamily

Stanislaw Dunin-Horkawicz, Marcin Feder, Janusz M Bujnicki BMC Genomics 2006, 7:98 (28 April 2006)

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Compositional discordance between prokaryotic plasmids and host chromosomes

Mark WJ van Passel, Aldert Bart, Angela CM Luyf, Antoine HC van Kampen, Arie van der Ende BMC Genomics 2006, 7:26 (15 February 2006)

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Exploration of phylogenetic data using a global sequence analysis method

Charles Chapus, Christine Dufraigne, Scott Edwards, Alain Giron, Bernard Fertil, Patrick Deschavanne BMC Evolutionary Biology 2005, 5:63 (9 November 2005)

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Accelerated evolution associated with genome reduction in a free-living prokaryote

Alexis Dufresne, Laurence Garczarek, Frédéric Partensky Genome Biology 2005, 6:R14 (14 January 2005)

Prochlorococcus sp. are marine bacteria with very small genomes. The mechanisms by which these reduced genomes have evolved appears, however, to be distinct from those that have led to small genome size in intracellular bacteria.

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Comparative genomics of gene-family size in closely related bacteria

Ravindra Pushker, Alex Mira, Francisco Rodríguez-Valera Genome Biology 2004, 5:R27 (18 March 2004)

The size of a given gene family is remarkably similar in strains of the same species and in closely related species, suggesting that homologous gene families are vertically transmitted and depend little on horizontal gene transfer.

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Algorithms for computing parsimonious evolutionary scenarios for genome evolution, the last universal common ancestor and dominance of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of prokaryotes

Boris G Mirkin, Trevor I Fenner, Michael Y Galperin, Eugene V Koonin BMC Evolutionary Biology 2003, 3:2 (6 January 2003)

A new analysis of orthologous genes in prokaryotes suggest that horizontal gene transfer has been as common as gene loss during bacterial evolution and may have been the dominant force in early prokaryotic evolution.