The genome sequence of Blochmannia floridanus: Comparative analysis of reduced genomes

R. Gil; F.J. Silva; E. Zientz; F. Delmotte; F. Gonzalez-Candelas; A. Latorre; C. Rausell; J. Kamerbeek; J. Gadau; B. Hölldobler; R.C.H.J. van Ham; R. Gross; A. Moya

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The genome sequence of Blochmannia floridanus: Comparative analysis of reduced genomes

R. Gil, F.J. Silva, E. Zientz, F. Delmotte, F. Gonzalez-Candelas, A. Latorre, C. Rausell, J. Kamerbeek, J. Gadau, B. Hölldobler, R.C.H.J. van Ham, R. Gross, A. Moya

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Bacterial symbioses are widespread among insects, probably being one of the key factors of their evolutionary success. We present the complete genome sequence of Blochmannia floridanus, the primary endosymbiont of carpenter ants. Although these ants feed on a complex diet, this symbiosis very likely has a nutritional basis: Blochmannia is able to supply nitrogen and sulfur compounds to the host while it takes advantage of the host metabolic machinery. Remarkably, these bacteria lack all known genes involved in replication initiation (dnaA, priA, and recA). The phylogenetic analysis of a set of conserved protein-coding genes shows that Bl. floridanus is phylogenetically related to Buchnera aphidicola and Wigglesworthia glossinidia, the other endosymbiotic bacteria whose complete genomes have been sequenced so far. Comparative analysis of the five known genomes from insect endosymbiotic bacteria reveals they share only 313 genes, a number that may be close to the minimum gene set necessary to sustain endosymbiotic life

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9388-9393
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	100
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1533499100
Publication status	Published - 2003

Keywords

escherichia-coli k-12
endosymbiotic bacteria
phylogenetic analysis
gene-cluster
evolution
proteins
buchnera
replication
selection
aphids

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Gil, R., Silva, F. J., Zientz, E., Delmotte, F., Gonzalez-Candelas, F., Latorre, A., Rausell, C., Kamerbeek, J., Gadau, J., Hölldobler, B., van Ham, R. C. H. J., Gross, R., & Moya, A. (2003). The genome sequence of Blochmannia floridanus: Comparative analysis of reduced genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100(16), 9388-9393. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1533499100

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The genome sequence of Blochmannia floridanus: Comparative analysis of reduced genomes

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