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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 74, Issue 18, Pages 5822-5831Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01093-08
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [Y 277] Funding Source: researchfish
- Austrian Science Fund FWF [P 19252] Funding Source: Medline
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Free-living amoebae are frequent hosts for bacterial endosymbionts. In this study, the symbionts of eight novel environmental Acanthamoeba strains isolated from different locations worldwide were characterized. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that they were related to one of four evolutionary lineages of amoeba symbionts recognized previously. This study provides evidence for the existence of only a small number of phylogenetically well-separated groups of obligate intracellular endosymbionts of acanthamoebae with global distribution.
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