Non-Adaptive Evolution In Cicada Gut: 2 Genomes Function As 1

Thursday, August 28, 2014 - 15:20 in Biology & Nature

Organisms in a symbiotic relationship will often shed genes as they come to rely on the other organism for crucial functions but researchers have uncovered an unusual event in which a bacterium that lives in a type of cicada split into two species - doubling the number of organisms required for the symbiosis to survive. read more

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