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Buchnera is a mutualistic endosymbiont of its host, but the pattern of reductions of numbers of genes among functional categories is similar between Buchnera and other fully sequenced small-genome bacteria, all obligate pathogens [ 8, 12, 15, 16].
In this very effective “ménage à trois” the sulfate reducer has even become an endosymbiont of the worm.
Seep tubeworms take up sulfide from the sulfide-rich subsurface sediment zones through the roots, but, crucially, they may also release sulfate through the roots as a byproduct of sulfide oxidation by the tubeworm's endosymbiont.
A very promising and urgent area of endosymbiont research is the manipulation of these bacteria to control vector populations in the field.
The Buchnera endosymbiont of the aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum has a genome of 643 kb [ 8], only one-seventh the size of the genome of E. coli MG1655 (4.