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ArticlemBio2025

A phylogeny-based method in detecting the species-specialized genes in microbes and its application to a marine symbiont bacterium.

Xiaolin Zhou, Weijie Li, Siya Xie, Kang Xia, Mei Xiao, Xiaojing Yang, Zhiyuan Li

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Article in mBio, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Xiaolin Zhou *Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID 0009-0004-6270-9637
Weijie Li *Peking University Chengdu Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Biotechnologies, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Siya Xie *Center for Life Science, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Kang XiaPeking University Chengdu Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Biotechnologies, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Mei XiaoPeking University Chengdu Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Biotechnologies, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Xiaojing YangPeking University Chengdu Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Biotechnologies, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3397-0578
Zhiyuan LiCenter for Life Science, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6662-2636

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Different microbes possess special traits that enable adaptation to their specific niches, often through specialized genes. Beyond orphan genes, few methods identify homologous genes with unusual functional regions. To address this, we investigated the extreme recombination frequency of the marine symbiont

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Genes, BacterialPhylogenySymbiosisAnimalsAquatic OrganismsComputational BiologyEscherichia coliGenome, BacterialRecombination, GeneticSeawaterhomologous recombinationphylogenetic analysisspecies-special genes

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PMID41159741
PMCPMC12691675

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