| acetic acid bacteria genomes reveal functional traits for adaptation to life in insect guts. | acetic acid bacteria (aab) live in sugar rich environments, including food matrices, plant tissues, and the gut of sugar-feeding insects. by comparing the newly sequenced genomes of asaia platycodi and saccharibacter sp., symbionts of anopheles stephensi and apis mellifera, respectively, with those of 14 other aab, we provide a genomic view of the evolutionary pattern of this bacterial group and clues on traits that explain the success of aab as insect symbionts. a specific pre-adaptive trait, c ... | 2014 | 24682158 |