PhD project embedded in Project 1: Genomic Correlates of Microbial Coevolution

Topic of PhD thesis:

Leaf nodule symbiosis in the genomic era : new insights into bacterial symbiont evolution, function and transmission.

Publications:

Danneels B, Pinto-Carbó M, Carlier A (2018).

Patterns of Nucleotide Deletion and Insertion Inferred from Bacterial Pseudogenes (https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy140)

Genome Biology and Evolution, July 2018, Pages 1792–1802

Pinto-Carbó M, Gademann K,  Eberl L, Carlier A (2018).

Leaf nodule symbiosis: function and transmission of obligate bacterial endophytes (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2018.01.001)

Current Opinion in Plant Biology, August 2018, Pages 23-31

Pinto-Carbó M, Sieber S, Dessein S, Wicker T, Verstraete B, Gademann K, Eberl L, Carlier A (2016).

Evidence of horizontal gene transfer between obligate leaf nodule symbionts (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.27)

The ISME Journal, September 2016

Carlier A, Fehr L, Pinto-Carbó M, Schäberle T, Reher R, Dessein S, König G, Eberl L (2016).

The genome analysis of Candidatus Burkholderia crenata reveals that secondary metabolism may be a key function of the Ardisia crenata leaf nodule symbiosis (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13184)

Environmental Microbiology, August 2016, Pages 2507–2522