Evolutionary Genomics: is Buchnera a Bacterium or an Organelle?

Overview

Journal Curr Biol

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2000 Dec 15

PMID 11114534

Citations 11

Authors

J O Andersson

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Abstract

The first genome sequence of an intracellular bacterial symbiont of a eukaryotic cell has been determined. The Buchnera genome shares features with the genomes of both intracellular pathogenic bacteria and eukaryotic organelles, and it may represent an intermediate between the two.

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