TABLE 3 .
Numbers of genes in highly reduced or retained categories in the anglerfish symbionts (CC26 and MJ02 samples), flashlight fish symbiont (Anomalops katoptron symbiont Akat8), and free-living relatives (E. calviensis, S. costicola subsp. costicola, and A. fischeri)
| Category | No. of genes in category for: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free-living relative |
Symbiont |
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| Enterovibrio | Salinivibrio | Aliivibrio | Flashlight fish |
CC26 | MJ02 | |
| Reduced categories | ||||||
| PTS (type) | 12 (varied) | 11 (varied) | 13 (varied) | 1 (glucose) | 1 (glucose) | 1 (glucose) |
| Amino acid synthesis (complete pathways) |
91 (20) | 74 (19) | 85 (20) | 18 (4) | 26 (7) | 34 (9) |
| Energy metabolism | 661 | 202 | 312 | 49 | 83 | 84 |
| DNA repair and recombination |
12 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 3 |
| Methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins |
36 | 20 | 43 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Retained categories | ||||||
| Cell wall synthesis | 253 | 120 | 232 | 76 | 103 | 116 |
| Motility and chemotaxis | 150 | 102 | 131 | 57 | 89 | 89 |