Defying Muller’s Ratchet: Ancient Heritable Endobacteria Escape Extinction through Retention of Recombination and Genome Plasticity

ABSTRACT   Heritable endobacteria, which are transmitted from one host generation to the next, are subjected to evolutionary forces that are different from those experienced by free-living bacteria. In particular, they suffer consequences of Muller’s ratchet, a mechanism that leads to extinction of...

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Auteurs principaux: Mizue Naito, Teresa E. Pawlowska
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Langue:EN
Publié: American Society for Microbiology 2016
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/0cd26870a56b491e8a192db3f9f10c02
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