Shrinking genomics

Nicholas R. Thomson; Mohammed Sebaihia; Ana M. Cerdeño-Tárraga; Matthew T.G. Holden; Julian Parkhill

doi:10.1038/nrmicro800

Shrinking genomics

Nicholas R. Thomson^*, Mohammed Sebaihia, Ana M. Cerdeño-Tárraga, Matthew T.G. Holden, Julian Parkhill

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	11
Number of pages	1
Journal	Nature Reviews Microbiology
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro800
Publication status	Published - Jan 2004

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