Genome Erosion in a Nitrogen-Fixing Vertically Transmitted Endosymbiotic Multicellular Cyanobacterium

• Liang Ran ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liang Ran, John Larsson

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• John Larsson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liang Ran, John Larsson

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Theoden Vigil-Stenman,

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Johan A. A. Nylander,

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Karolina Ininbergs,

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Wei-Wen Zheng,

  Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

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• Alla Lapidus,

  Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

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• Stephen Lowry,

  Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

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• Robert Haselkorn,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Birgitta Bergman

  * E-mail: bergmanb@botan.su.se

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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