Comparison of Intracellular “ Ca. Endomicrobium Trichonymphae” Genomovars Illuminates the Requirement and Decay of Defense Systems against Foreign DNA

• Published in: Genome biology and evolution Vol. 8; no. 10; pp. 3099 - 3107
• Main Authors: Izawa, Kazuki, Kuwahara, Hirokazu, Kihara, Kumiko, Yuki, Masahiro, Lo, Nathan, Itoh, Takehiko, Ohkuma, Moriya, Hongoh, Yuichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.10.2016
• Subjects: Animals; Bacteria - genetics; Bacteria - pathogenicity; CRISPR-Cas Systems; DNA Restriction-Modification Enzymes; Genome, Bacterial; Hypermastigia - microbiology; Hypermastigia - pathogenicity; Isoptera - parasitology; Letter; Open Reading Frames; Pseudogenes; Selection, Genetic; Symbiosis - genetics; Virulence - genetics; insect; CRISPR; gut bacteria; termite; endosymbiosis; restriction–modification system

"Candidatus Endomicrobium trichonymphae" (Bacteria; Elusimicrobia) is an obligate intracellular symbiont of the cellulolytic protist genus Trichonympha in the termite gut. A previous genome analysis of "Ca Endomicrobium trichonymphae" phylotype Rs-D17 (genomovar Ri2008), obtained...