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  • Title: Shrinking genomics.
    Author: Thomson NR, Sebaihia M, Cerdeño-Tárraga AM, Holden MT, Parkhill J.
    Journal: Nat Rev Microbiol; 2004 Jan; 2(1):11. PubMed ID: 15035003.
    Abstract:
    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.
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