Alexei Y Kostygov, Anzhelika Butenko, Anna Nenarokova, Daria Tashyreva, Pavel Flegontov, Julius Lukeš, Vyacheslav Yurchenko
We have sequenced, annotated, and analyzed the genome of Ca . Pandoraea novymonadis, a recently described bacterial endosymbiont of the trypanosomatid Novymonas esmeraldas. When compared with genomes of its free-living relatives, it has all the hallmarks of the endosymbionts' genomes, such as significantly reduced size, extensive gene loss, low GC content, numerous gene rearrangements, and low codon usage bias. In addition, Ca . P. novymonadis lacks mobile elements, has a strikingly low number of pseudogenes, and almost all genes are single copied...
2017: Frontiers in Microbiology