Nature lessons: the whitefly bacterial endosymbiont is a minimal amino acid factory with unusual energetics
Jorge Calle-Espinosa, Miguel Ponce-de-Leon, Diego Santos-Garcia…·Juli Pereto
The paper constructs a genome-scale metabolic model of the whitefly endosymbiont to show that its energy production is linked to amino acid and carotenoid synthesis, challenging the idea that genome reduction limits biosynthetic potential.