Genomic and cellular complexity from symbiotic simplicity.

Bordenstein, Seth R · Cell · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The more that biologists study symbiotic microorganisms and their vast influence on animals, the more nature's networkism unfolds in a continuum at different biological scales. In this issue, Van Leuven et al. illuminate how a stable and longstanding animal-microbe mutualism increased its intergenomic network without gaining any new genomes.

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