ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2015
Endosymbiont evolution: predictions from theory and surprises from genomes.
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- Intrahost mutational dynamics parallel long-term genome evolution in endosymbionts.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Cellular remodeling of ovarian follicular epithelial cells transmits an obligate nutritional endosymbiont in a scale insect.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Comparative analysis of 163 ant genomes reveals recurrent horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to ants.GigaScience · 2026Article
- Close spatial and metabolic association between heterotrophic and ammonia-oxidizing marine Nitrososphaerota.ISME communications · 2026Article
- A co-speciation dilemma and a lifestyle transition with genomic consequences in Wolbachia of Neotropical Drosophila.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Comparative Genomics Reveals Multipartite Genomes Undergoing Loss in the Fungal Endosymbiotic Genus Mycetohabitans.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Phylogenomic signatures of repeat-induced point mutations across the fungal kingdom.PLoS biology · 2025Article
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- Variation in accessory and horizontal gene transfer-associated genes drives lucinid endosymbiont diversity.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Article
- Adaptation During the Shift from Entomopathogen to Endosymbiont Is Accompanied by Gene Loss and Intensified Selection.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Genome Streamlining: Effect of Mutation Rate and Population Size on Genome Size Reduction.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- A new lysine biosynthetic enzyme from a bacterial endosymbiont shaped by genetic drift and genome reduction.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2024Article
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- Exploring the landscape of symbiotic diversity and distribution in unicellular ciliated protists.Microbiome · 2024Article
- How do bacterial endosymbionts work with so few genes?PLoS biology · 2024Article
- A universal and constant rate of gene content change traces pangenome flux to LUCA.FEMS microbiology letters · 2024Article
- Genome reduction occurred in early Prochlorococcus with an unusually low effective population size.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- Comparative genomics of a vertically transmitted thiotrophic bacterial ectosymbiont and its close free-living relative.Molecular ecology resources · 2024Article
- MAGs-centric crack: how long will, spore-positiveFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Genome data have created new opportunities to untangle evolutionary processes shaping microbial variation. Among bacteria, long-term mutualists of insects represent the smallest and (typically) most AT-rich genomes. Evolutionary theory provides a context to predict how an endosymbiotic lifestyle may alter fundamental evolutionary processes--mutation, selection, genetic drift, and recombination--and thus contribute to extreme genomic outcomes. These predictions can then be explored by comparing evolutionary rates, genome size and stability, and base compositional biases across endosymbiotic and free-living bacteria. Recent surprises from such comparisons include genome reduction among uncultured, free-living species. Some studies suggest that selection generally drives this streamlining, while drift drives genome reduction in endosymbionts; however, this remains an hypothesis requiring additional data. Unexpected evidence of selection acting on endosymbiont GC content hints that even weak selection may be effective in some long-term mutualists. Moving forward, intraspecific analysis offers a promising approach to distinguish underlying mechanisms, by testing the null hypothesis of neutrality and by quantifying mutational spectra. Such analyses may clarify whether endosymbionts and free-living bacteria occupy distinct evolutionary trajectories or, alternatively, represent varied outcomes of similar underlying forces.
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