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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Sayavedra L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4612132 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20150915
Bathymodiolus mussels live in symbiosis with intracellular sulfur-oxidizing (SOX) bacteria that provide them with nutrition. We sequenced the SOX symbiont genomes from two Bathymodiolus species. Comparison of these symbiont genomes with those of their closest relatives revealed that the symbionts have undergone genome rearrangements, and up to 35% of their genes may have been acquired by horizontal gene transfer. Many of the genes specific to the symbionts were homologs of virulence genes. We di ...[more]