Absence of Genome Reduction In Diverse, Facultative Endohyphal Bacteria
David A Baltrus, Kevin Dougherty, Kayla R Arendt, Marcel Huntemann, Alicia Clum, Manoj Pillay, Krishnaveni Palaniappan, Neha Varghese, Natalia Mikhailova, Dimitrios Stamatis, T.B.K. Reddy, Chew Yee Ngan, Chris Daum, Nicole Shapiro, Victor Markowitz, , A. Elizabeth Arnold
The paper analyzes genome sequences of facultative endohyphal bacteria from diverse fungi, finding no genome reduction and no universal pathways for host interaction.
bioRxiv · Mar 25, 2016Microbiology