The importance of host-specialization to speciation processes in obligate host-associated bacteria is well known, as is also the ability of recombination to generate cohesion in bacterial populations.
Global metabolic analysis of Xenorhabdus bovienii strains. Description: Table of all metabolic pathways in X. bovienii and the relative completeness of each pathway. (XLSX 76 kb)
The goal of this study was to use heterologous microarray hybridization to determine genomic content shared among different vesicomyid symbionts. These symbionts are closely related and can be though