The path to dependence: stepwise genome evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing diatom-Richelia symbioses
Vesna Grujčić, Maliheh Mehrshad, Carl Theoden…·Rachel Ann Foster
This study examines genome evolution in diatom-Richelia symbioses, showing genome reduction and increased host dependency in endobionts compared to periplasmic and epibionts.