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Solving a Bloody Mess: B-Vitamin Independent Metabolic Convergence among Gammaproteobacterial Obligate Endosymbionts from Blood-Feeding Arthropods and the LeechHaementeria officinalis

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The Tiniest Tiny Genomes

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Parallel Histories of Horizontal Gene Transfer Facilitated Extreme Reduction of Endosymbiont Genomes in Sap-Feeding Insects

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(2013) Calum W. Russell et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparison of the Genome Sequences of “Candidatus Portiera aleyrodidarum” Primary Endosymbionts of the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci B and Q Biotypes

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(2013) Gordon M. Bennett et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A Phylum-Level Bacterial Phylogenetic Marker Database

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MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

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PhyloBayes MPI: Phylogenetic Reconstruction with Infinite Mixtures of Profiles in a Parallel Environment

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Unipro UGENE: a unified bioinformatics toolkit

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SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

(2012) Anton Bankevich et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Geographical Location Determines the Population Structure in Phyllosphere Microbial Communities of a Salt-Excreting Desert Tree

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An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs

(2011) John P. McCutcheon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Aphid genome expression reveals host-symbiont cooperation in the production of amino acids

(2011) A. K. Hansen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionary Relationships among Primary Endosymbionts of the Mealybug Subfamily Phenacoccinae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae)

(2010) M. E. Gruwell et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

CDD: a Conserved Domain Database for the functional annotation of proteins

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progressiveMauve: Multiple Genome Alignment with Gene Gain, Loss and Rearrangement

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A subfamily-level classification of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) based on integrated molecular and morphological data

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Bacterial Genes in the Aphid Genome: Absence of Functional Gene Transfer from Buchnera to Its Host

(2010) Naruo Nikoh et al.   PLoS Genetics

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

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Pathway Tools version 13.0: integrated software for pathway/genome informatics and systems biology

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The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of pathway/genome databases

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Iron-Sulfur (Fe/S) Protein Biogenesis: Phylogenomic and Genetic Studies of A-Type Carriers

(2009) Daniel Vinella et al.   PLoS Genetics

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

(2008) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Drop-Size Soda Lakes: Transient Microbial Habitats on a Salt-Secreting Desert Tree

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