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Bacteria on the fly

The bacteria that live inside aphids have such a cosy relationship with their hosts that they need few genes of their own, hinting that some of our own subcellular elements may have come about in a similar way.

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  1. Baumann,P., Moran, N. A., & Baumann, L. in The Prokaryotes (ed. Dworkin, M.) 2000.

  2. ShigenobuS. et al. The genome sequence of Buchnera sp. APS, an endocellular bacterial symbiont of aphids. Nature 407, 81 - 86 2000.

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de Peyer, O. Bacteria on the fly. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000907-11

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