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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Nana Ankrah
PROVIDER: MODEL1806250003 | BioModels | 2018-11-15
REPOSITORIES: BioModels
mBio 20180925 5
Various intracellular bacterial symbionts that provide their host with essential nutrients have much-reduced genomes, attributed largely to genomic decay and relaxed selection. To obtain quantitative estimates of the metabolic function of these bacteria, we reconstructed genome- and transcriptome-informed metabolic models of three xylem-feeding insects that bear two bacterial symbionts with complementary metabolic functions: a primary symbiont, <i>Sulcia</i>, that has codiversified with the inse ...[more]