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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American Society for Microbiology
2016
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/0cd26870a56b491e8a192db3f9f10c02 |
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