Symbiotic Adaptation Drives Genome Streamlining of the Cyanobacterial Sponge Symbiont “Candidatus Synechococcus spongiarum”
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Genome binning.

Genome feature or gene function | Value for indicated taxona | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
Genome recovery | ~90% | F | D | D | F | F | D | F |
Genome size (Mbp) | 1.66 | 2.22 | 2.58 | 3.04 | 2.61 | 1.75 | 2.83 | 3.34 |
No. of essential genes | 96 | 106 | 104 | 106 | 105 | 106 | 105 | 106 |
% GC content | 63.4 | 60.8 | 64.5 | 65.4 | 52.5 | 36.4 | 68.7 | 68.7 |
% Coding density | 87.5 | 94.2 | 92.7 | 88.4 | 87.2 | 89.3 | 87.6 | 89.5 |
No. of genes in KEGG pathways | ||||||||
Photosynthesis | 47 | 60 | 64 | 61 | 64 | 53 | 57 | 59 |
Antenna proteins | 24 | 28 | 18 | 23 | 28 | 8 | 21 | 17 |
TCA cycles | 10 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
DNA replication | 13 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 14 |
DNA repair | 31 | 38 | 41 | 47 | 38 | 36 | 40 | 41 |
Cysteine/methionine metabolism | 10 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 19 | 17 | 21 | 24 |
No. of genes in SEED/subsystems | ||||||||
Response to oxidative stress | 12 | 28 | 26 | 32 | 26 | 21 | 29 | 31 |
Resistance to antibiotics and toxins | 8 | 22 | 22 | 28 | 23 | 9 | 30 | 36 |
CPS and EPS biosynthesis | 3 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 19 | 17 |
Gram-negative cell wall | 7 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 17 |
Peptidoglycan biosynthesis | 16 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 16 |
Eukaryotic-like domain | ||||||||
Fibronectin type III domain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
AR | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
TPR | 3 | 9 | 7 | 17 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 14 |
LRR | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Phylogenomic inference.

Functional features at the genomic level.
Host-symbiont interaction.
Amino acid metabolism.

Photosynthetic system.

Resistance to oxidative stress.

Resistance to antibiotics and toxic compounds.
Cell wall and capsule composition.
DNA replication and repair.
Overview of the possible lifestyle of “Ca. Synechococcus spongiarum” SH4.

Summary.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample collection and DNA extraction.
Metagenome sequencing and assembly.
Genome binning.
Genome analysis.
16S rRNA prediction and phylogenetic tree construction.
Nucleotide sequence accession numbers.
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