Genome of Ca. Pandoraea Novymonadis, an Endosymbiotic Bacterium of the Trypanosomatid Novymonas Esmeraldas
fmicb-08-01940 September 30, 2017 Time: 16:0 # 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 04 October 2017 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01940 Genome of Ca. Pandoraea novymonadis, an Endosymbiotic Bacterium of the Trypanosomatid Novymonas esmeraldas Alexei Y. Kostygov1,2†, Anzhelika Butenko1,3†, Anna Nenarokova3,4, Daria Tashyreva3, Pavel Flegontov1,3,5, Julius Lukeš3,4 and Vyacheslav Yurchenko1,3,6* 1 Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia, 2 Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, 3 Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceskéˇ Budejovice,ˇ Czechia, 4 Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Ceskéˇ Budejovice,ˇ Czechia, 5 Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 6 Institute of Environmental Technologies, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia 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 Edited by: has all the hallmarks of the endosymbionts’ genomes, such as significantly reduced João Marcelo Pereira Alves, University of São Paulo, Brazil size, extensive gene loss, low GC content, numerous gene rearrangements, and Reviewed by: low codon usage bias. In addition, Ca. P. novymonadis lacks mobile elements, Zhao-Rong Lun, has a strikingly low number of pseudogenes, and almost all genes are single Sun Yat-sen University, China Vera Tai, copied. This suggests that it already passed the intensive period of host adaptation, University of Western Ontario, Canada which still can be observed in the genome of Polynucleobacter necessarius, a *Correspondence: certainly recent endosymbiont.
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