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Genome size ranges for obligately host-associated and free-living bacterial species. Host-dependent bacteria typically undergo severe genome reduction. Primary mutualists of insects include the smallest bacterial genome known, the 160 kb chromosome of Carsonella associated with psyllids (Nakabachi et al., 2006).
