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Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs

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Title
Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs
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BMC Biology, January 2009
DOI 10.1186/1741-7007-7-2
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Yoshitomo Kikuchi, Takahiro Hosokawa, Naruo Nikoh, Xian-Ying Meng, Yoichi Kamagata, Takema Fukatsu

Abstract

Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution have been commonly observed among obligate endocellular insect symbionts, while such examples have rarely been identified among extracellular ones, the only case reported being from gut symbiotic bacteria of stinkbugs of the family Plataspidae. Considering that gut symbiotic communities are vulnerable to invasion of foreign microbes, gut symbiotic associations have been thought to be evolutionarily not stable. Stinkbugs of the family Acanthosomatidae harbor a bacterial symbiont in the midgut crypts, the lumen of which is completely sealed off from the midgut main tract, thereby retaining the symbiont in the isolated cryptic cavities. We investigated histological, ecological, phylogenetic, and genomic aspects of the unique gut symbiosis of the acanthosomatid stinkbugs.

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Country Count As %
Germany 4 2%
Spain 2 <1%
Belgium 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Other 3 1%
Unknown 217 93%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 62 26%
Researcher 51 22%
Student > Master 34 15%
Student > Bachelor 19 8%
Professor 14 6%
Other 38 16%
Unknown 16 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 156 67%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 22 9%
Environmental Science 9 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 3%
Computer Science 2 <1%
Other 15 6%
Unknown 24 10%