Selection-Driven Gene Loss in Bacteria
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Selection-Driven Gene Loss in Bacteria
Gene loss by deletion is a common evolutionary process in bacteria, as exemplified by bacteria with small genomes that have evolved from bacteria with larger genomes by reductive processes. The driving force(s) for genome reduction remains unclear, and here we examined the hypothesis that gene loss is selected because carriage of superfluous genes confers a fitness cost to the bacterium. In the...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Genetics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1553-7404
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002787