Evolution of an endofungal lifestyle: Deductions from the Burkholderia rhizoxinica genome.
(2011) Evolution of an endofungal lifestyle: Deductions from the Burkholderia rhizoxinica genome. BMC Genomics 12, 210. PubMed
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The genome of the endofungal bacterium Burkholderia rhizoxinica
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Abstract
Burkholderia rhizoxinica is an intracellular symbiont of the phytopathogenic zygomycete Rhizopus microsporus, the causative agent of rice seedling blight. The endosymbiont produces the antimitotic macrolide rhizoxin for its host. It is vertically transmitted within vegetative spores and is essential for spore formation of the fungus. To shed light on the evolution and genetic potential of this model organism, we analysed the whole genome of B. rhizoxinica HKI 0454 - a type strain of endofungal Burkholderia species.
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doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-210 PMID: 21539752
