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Featured Organism: Reductive Evolution in Bacteria: Buchnera sp., Rickettsia Prowazekii and Mycobacterium Leprae
Obligate intracellular bacteria commonly have much reduced genome sizes compared to their nearest free-living relatives. One reason for this is reductive evolution: the loss of genes rendered non-essential due to the intracellular habitat. This can occur because of the presence of orthologous genes...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2001
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2447184/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18628941 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cfg.70 |