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Complete genomes where Trp-pathway genes were lost via reductive evolution |
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| Bacterial organisms |
No pathway |
Incomplete pathway |
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| Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus |
√ |
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| Borrelia burgdorferi |
√ |
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| Chlamydia muridarum |
√ |
|
| Chlamydia trachomatis |
√ |
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| Chlamydophila pneumoniae |
√ |
|
| Chlamydophila psittacia |
√ |
√ |
| Clostridium difficile |
√ |
|
| Clostridium perfringens |
√ |
|
| Clostridium tetani |
√ |
|
| Coxiella burnetti |
√ |
|
| Enterococcus faecalis |
√ |
|
| Fusobacterium nucleatum |
√ |
|
| Haemophilus ducreyi |
√ |
|
| Lactobacillus johnsonii |
√ |
|
| Mycoplasma genitalium |
√ |
|
| Mycoplasma mycoides |
√ |
|
| Mycoplasma pneumoniae |
√ |
|
| Phytoplasma asteris |
√ |
|
| Porphyromonas gingivalis |
√ |
|
| Rickettsia prowazekii |
√ |
|
| Streptococcus agalactiae |
√ |
|
| Streptococcus equi |
√ |
|
| Streptococcus pyogenes |
√ |
|
| Treponema denticola |
√ |
|
| Treponema pallidum |
√ |
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| Tropheryma whipplei |
√ |
|
| Ureaplasma urealyticum |
√ |
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| Wigglesworthia glossinidiab |
√ |
|
| Wolbachia sp.b |
√ |
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| Yesinia pestis KIM |
√ |
|
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aBut see [10] for a description of how an incomplete Trp pathway has been joined with other genes to yield a mosaic operon with a novel function. bInsect endosymbiont. | ||
Xie et al. BMC Biology 2004 2:15 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-2-15 |
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