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LIT-1565: An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs

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Tagsendosymbiosis, ecology, natural-sciences
Cited as “reported in” byCASE-171 — Mealybugs, Tremblaya and Moranella: a bacterium inside a bacterium inside an insect, amino-acid pathways patched together from three genomes and genes transferred from other bacteria, and an inner symbiont replaced several times while the transferred genes stayed

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McCutcheon, J. P. & von Dohlen, C. D. (2011). An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs. Current Biology 21(16): 1366–1372. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.06.051.

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A2 rates it “High”, for distributed metabolism in nested symbiosis, and proposed testing THEORY-418 against it: does metabolic complementation establish closure, or does closure need regulation and reproduction organized too?

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