The Black Queen Hypothesis: Evolution of Dependencies through Adaptive Gene Loss

ABSTRACT Reductive genomic evolution, driven by genetic drift, is common in endosymbiotic bacteria. Genome reduction is less common in free-living organisms, but it has occurred in the numerically dominant open-ocean bacterioplankton Prochlorococcus and “Candidatus Pelagibacter,” and in these cases...

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Auteurs principaux: J. Jeffrey Morris, Richard E. Lenski, Erik R. Zinser
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Langue:EN
Publié: American Society for Microbiology 2012
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