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suggest a broader mutualistic interaction between the tubeworm, its endosymbiont, and benthic hydrocarbon-degrading and sulfide-producing microbes.
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].
At one end of the spectrum, beneficial endosymbionts provide essential nutrients to about 10%–15% of insects and provide models for highly specialized, long-term mutualistic associations (Figure 1).
The same insects that transmit these devastating human parasites often possess a diversity of mutualistic and parasitic bacterial endosymbionts.
Symbiotic interactions, whether pathogenic or mutualistic, present novel challenges to both plant hosts and the biologists who study them.