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Aphid thermal tolerance is governed by a point mutation in bacterial symbionts.

Selective elimination of aphid endosymbionts: effects of antibiotic dose and host genotype, and fitness consequences.

Genome reduction of the aphid endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola in a recent evolutionary time scale.

Dynamics of reductive genome evolution in mitochondria and obligate intracellular microbes.

Optimization and clinical validation of a pathogen detection microarray.

Conservation of the links between gene transcription and chromosomal organization in the highly reduced genome of Buchnera aphidicola.

Modular organization in the reductive evolution of protein-protein interaction networks.

Different levels of transcriptional regulation due to trophic constraints in the reduced genome of Buchnera aphidicola APS.

Selection acts on DNA secondary structures to decrease transcriptional mutagenesis.

Genetics. The bacterial world gets smaller.

A small microbial genome: the end of a long symbiotic relationship?

Strict host-symbiont cospeciation and reductive genome evolution in insect gut bacteria.

Hundreds of flagellar basal bodies cover the cell surface of the endosymbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola sp. strain APS.

Strong asymmetric mutation bias in endosymbiont genomes coincide with loss of genes for replication restart pathways.

Functional genomics of Buchnera and the ecology of aphid hosts.

Chance and necessity in the evolution of minimal metabolic networks.

BuchneraBASE: a post-genomic resource for Buchnera sp. APS.

Plasmids in the aphid endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola with the smallest genomes. A puzzling evolutionary story

A dual-genome microarray for the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, and its obligate bacterial symbiont, Buchnera aphidicola.

Codon usage bias and tRNA over-expression in Buchnera aphidicola after aromatic amino acid nutritional stress on its host Acyrthosiphon pisum.