Abstract
Extrachromosomal element pSOG3 (52,162 nucleotides) in the genome of Sodalis glossinidius contains redundant phage-related gene pairs, indicating that it may have been formed by the fusion of two ancestral phage genomes followed by gene degradation. We suggest that pSOG3 is a prophage that has undergone genome degeneration accompanying host adaptation to symbiosis.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 2949-2951 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of bacteriology |
| Volume | 189 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2007 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology
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