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Alex Aoyagi
Researcher at University of Utah
Publications - 1
Citations - 167
Alex Aoyagi is an academic researcher from University of Utah. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Comparative genomics. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 134 citations.
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Genome degeneration and adaptation in a nascent stage of symbiosis
Kelly F. Oakeson,Rosario Gil,Adam L. Clayton,Diane M. Dunn,Andrew von Niederhausern,Cindy Hamil,Alex Aoyagi,Brett Duval,Amanda Baca,Francisco J. Silva,Agnès Vallier,D. Grant Jackson,Amparo Latorre,Robert B. Weiss,Abdelaziz Heddi,Andrés Moya,Colin Dale +16 more
TL;DR: Structural, functional, and evolutionary analyses indicate that SOPE has undergone extensive adaptation toward an insect-associated lifestyle in a very short time period, and analyses of the bacterial cell envelope and genes encoding secretion systems suggest that these structures and elements have become simplified in the transition to a mutualistic association.