Symbiosis is a widespread phenomenon in nature, in which insects show a great number of these associations. Buchnera aphidicola, the obligate endosymbiont of aphids, coexists in some species with anot
tRNAs decoding standard 20 AA 43 Selenocysteine tRNAs (TCA) 0 Possible suppressor tRNAs (CTA,TTA,TCA) 0 tRNAs with undetermined or unknown isotypes 1 Predicted pseudogenes 0 Total tRNAs 44
Candidatus Hodgkinia cicadicola Dsem. This organism has one of the smallest genomes found in prokaryotes and utilizes an alternative genetic code recoding UGA from a stop codon to a tryptophan.
