Warren JM, Prasad KSVK, Mendez AM, Temnyk S, McCutcheon JP

Expression of four mitochondrial tRNAs from only two loci

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Friar L, Keepers K, Garber AI, McCutcheon JP, Wing B, Kane N

Selection maintains photosynthesis in a symbiotic cyanobacterium despite redundancy with its fern host

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Mongue AJ, Woodman T, Marshall HS, Garber A, Franco JC, McCutcheon JP, Ross L

Contrasting evolutionary trajectories under paternal genome elimination in male and female citrus mealybugs

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McCutcheon JP, Garber AI, Spencer N, Warren JM

How do endosymbionts work with so few genes?

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Garber AI, Molina AGF, Vea I, Mongue AJ, Ross L, McCutcheon JP

Retention of an endosymbiont for the production of a single molecule

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Spencer N, Łukasik P, Meyer M, Veloso C, McCutcheon JP

No transcriptional compensation for extreme gene dosage imbalance in fragmented bacterial endosymbionts of cicadas

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Syberg-Olsen MJ, Garber AI, Keeling PJ, McCutcheon JP, Husnik F

Pseudofinder: detection of pseudogenes in prokaryotic genomes

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Resl P, Bujold AR, Tagirdzhanova G, Meidl P, Rallo SF, Kono M, et al.

Large differences in carbohydrate degradation and transport potential in the genomes of lichen fungal symbionts

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McCutcheon JP

The genomics and cell biology of host-beneficial intracellular infections

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Tagirdzhanova G, McCutcheon JP, Spribille T

Lichen fungi do not depend on the alga for ATP production: a comment on Pogoda et al. (2018)

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Garber AI, Kupper M, Laetsch DR, Weldon SR, Ladinsky MS, Bjorkman PJ, McCutcheon JP

The evolution of interdependence in a four-way mealybug symbiosis

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Milhaven M, Hastings E, Brister D, et al.

Complete genome sequence of Microbacterium Bacteriophage Erla

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McCutcheon JP

Q&A

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Bublitz DC, Chadwick GL, Magyar JS, Sandoz KM, et al.

Peptidoglycan production by an insect-bacterial mosaic

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Simon C, Gordon ERL, Moulds MS, Cole JA, et al.

Off-target capture data, endosymbiont genes and morphology reveal a relic lineage sister to all other singing cicadas

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Van Leuven JT, Mao M, Xing DD, Bennett GM, McCutcheon JP

Cicada endosymbionts contain tRNAs that are processed despite having genomes that lack tRNA processing activities

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McCutcheon JP, Boyd B, Dale C

The life of an insect endosymbiont from the cradle to the grave

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McCutcheon JP

Symbiosis: Fungi as shrewd trade negotiators

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Richards TA, McCutcheon JP

Coral symbiosis is a three-player game

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Matsuura Y, Moriyama M, Łukasik P, Vanderpool D, et al.

Recurrent symbiont recruitment from fungal parasites in cicadas

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Campbell MA, Łukasik P, Meyer MM, Buckner M, et al.

Changes in endosymbiont complexity drive host-level compensatory adaptations in cicadas

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Łukasik P, Chong RA, Nazario K, Matsuura Y, et al.

One hundred mitochondrial genomes of cicadas

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Łukasik P, Nazario K, Van Leuven JT, Campbell MA, Meyer M, Michalik A, Pessacq P, Simon C, Veloso C, McCutcheon JP

Multiple origins of interdependent endosymbiotic complexes in a genus of cicadas

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McCutcheon JP

Nancy A. Moran: the winding path of a brilliant scientific life

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Husník F, McCutcheon JP

Functional horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to eukaryotes

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Vanderpool D, Bracewell R, McCutcheon JP

Know your farmer: ancient origins and multiple independent domestications of ambrosia beetle fungal cultivars

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Campbell MA, Łukasik P, Simon C, McCutcheon JP

Idiosyncratic genome degradation in a bacterial endosymbiont of periodical cicadas

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Keeling PJ, McCutcheon JP

Endosymbiosis: the feeling is not mutual

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Spribille T, Tuovinen V, Resl P, Vanderpool D, et al.

Basidiomycete yeasts in the cortex of ascomycete macrolichens

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Husník F, McCutcheon JP

Repeated replacement of an intrabacterial symbiont in the tripartite nested mealybug symbiosis

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McCutcheon JP

From microbiology to cell biology: when an intracellular bacterium becomes part of its host cell

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Campbell MA, Van Leuven JT, Meister RC, Carey KM, Simon C, McCutcheon JP

Genome expansion via lineage splitting and genome reduction in the cicada endosymbiont Hodgkinia

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Bennett GM, McCutcheon JP, McDonald BR, Moran NA

Lineage-specific patterns of genome deterioration in obligate symbionts of sharpshooter leafhoppers

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Hallam SJ, McCutcheon JP

Microbes don't play solitaire: how cooperation trumps isolation in the microbial world

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Keeling PJ, McCutcheon JP, Doolittle WF

Symbiosis becoming permanent: survival of the luckiest

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Van Leuven JT, Meister RC, Simon C, McCutcheon JP

Sympatric speciation in a bacterial endosymbiont results in two genomes with the functionality of one

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Bennett GM, McCutcheon JP, McDonald BR, Romanovicz D, Moran NA

Differential genome evolution between companion symbionts in an insect-bacteria symbiosis

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McCutcheon JP, Keeling PJ

Endosymbiosis: protein targeting further erodes the organelle/symbiont distinction

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Duncan RP, Husnik F, Van Leuven JT, Gilbert DG, Davalos LM, McCutcheon JP, Wilson ACC

Dynamic recruitment of amino acid transporters to the insect/symbiont interface

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Husník F, Nikoh N, Koga R, Ross L, Duncan RP, et al.

Horizontal gene transfer from diverse bacteria to an insect genome enables a tripartite nested mealybug symbiosis

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McCutcheon JP

Genome evolution: a bacterium with a Napoleon complex

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Brown AMV, Huynh LY, Bolender CM, Nelson KG, McCutcheon JP

Population genomics of a symbiont in the early stages of a pest invasion

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McCutcheon JP, Moran NA

Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria

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Van Leuven JT, McCutcheon JP

An AT mutational bias in the tiny GC-rich endosymbiont genome of Hodgkinia

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McCutcheon JP, von Dohlen CD

An interdependent metabolic patchwork in the nested symbiosis of mealybugs

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McCutcheon JP, Moran NA

Functional convergence in reduced genomes of bacterial symbionts spanning 200 million years of evolution

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Woyke T, Tighe D, Mavromatis K, Clum A, et al.

One bacterial cell, one complete genome

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Nikoh N, McCutcheon JP, Kudo T, Miyagishima S, Moran NA, Nakabachi A

Bacterial genes in the aphid genome: absence of functional gene transfer from Buchnera to its host

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Genome sequence of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

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McCutcheon JP

The bacterial essence of tiny symbiont genomes

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McCutcheon JP, McDonald BR, Moran NA

Origin of an alternative genetic code in the extremely small and GC-rich genome of a bacterial symbiont

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McCutcheon JP, McDonald BR, Moran NA

Convergent evolution of metabolic roles in bacterial co-symbionts of insects

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Moran NA, McCutcheon JP, Nakabachi A

Genomics and evolution of heritable bacterial symbionts

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McCutcheon JP, Moran NA

Parallel genomic evolution and metabolic interdependence in an ancient symbiosis

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