Weakly Deleterious Mutations and Low Rates of Recombination Limit the Impact of Natural Selection on Bacterial Genomes
ABSTRACT Free-living bacteria are usually thought to have large effective population sizes, and so tiny selective differences can drive their evolution. However, because recombination is infrequent, “background selection” against slightly deleterious alleles should reduce the effective population si...
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American Society for Microbiology
2015
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/15d1ed4d00814c0bb2a4230498ba2441 |
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