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BACTERIAL EVOLUTION

Origin of rickettsial host dependency unravelled

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Phylogeny estimation of newly discovered aquatic copiotrophic Rickettsiales indicates evolution of host dependency from extracellular species and the origin of mitochondria from an unknown proteobacterial lineage.

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Fig. 1: Independent origin of host dependency in mitochondria and Rickettsiales.

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Verhoeve, V.I., Gillespie, J.J. Origin of rickettsial host dependency unravelled. Nat Microbiol 7, 1110–1111 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01187-9

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