Horizontal Gene Acquisition of Liberibacter Plant Pathogens from a Bacteriome-Confined Endosymbiont of Their Psyllid Vector

• Atsushi Nakabachi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Nakabachi, Naruo Nikoh

  * E-mail: nakabachi@eiiris.tut.ac.jp

  Affiliations Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS), Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Japan

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• Naruo Nikoh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Nakabachi, Naruo Nikoh

  Affiliation Department of Liberal Arts, The Open University of Japan, Chiba, Japan

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• Kenshiro Oshima,

  Affiliation Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

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• Hiromitsu Inoue,

  Affiliation Citrus Research Division, National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Kuchinotsu, Japan

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• Moriya Ohkuma,

  Affiliation Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Japan

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• Yuichi Hongoh,

  Affiliation Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Shin-ya Miyagishima,

  Affiliation Center for Frontier Research, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

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• Masahira Hattori,

  Affiliation Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

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• Takema Fukatsu

  Affiliation Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

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