TY - JOUR
T1 - Shrinking genomics
AU - Thomson, Nicholas R.
AU - Sebaihia, Mohammed
AU - Cerdeño-Tárraga, Ana M.
AU - Holden, Matthew T.G.
AU - Parkhill, Julian
PY - 2004/1
Y1 - 2004/1
N2 - Two bacteria are featured this month, and both are at the lower end of the genome size scale. The first, Mycoplasma gallisepticum, belongs to a group of bacteria that have been studied both as important human and animal pathogens and in the pursuit of understanding the essential functions of a self-replicating minimal cell. The second, Nanoarchaeum equitans, is an obligate symbiont that only grows in co-culture with another archaeon, N. equitans seems to be the coelacanth of the microbial world - it has been assigned to a new phylum and represents a primitive form of prokaroytic life.
AB - Two bacteria are featured this month, and both are at the lower end of the genome size scale. The first, Mycoplasma gallisepticum, belongs to a group of bacteria that have been studied both as important human and animal pathogens and in the pursuit of understanding the essential functions of a self-replicating minimal cell. The second, Nanoarchaeum equitans, is an obligate symbiont that only grows in co-culture with another archaeon, N. equitans seems to be the coelacanth of the microbial world - it has been assigned to a new phylum and represents a primitive form of prokaroytic life.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=1842486678&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/nrmicro800
DO - 10.1038/nrmicro800
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 15035003
AN - SCOPUS:1842486678
SN - 1740-1526
VL - 2
SP - 11
JO - Nature Reviews Microbiology
JF - Nature Reviews Microbiology
IS - 1
ER -
