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Massive comparative genomic analysis reveals convergent evolution of specialized bacteria
BACKGROUND: Genome size and gene content in bacteria are associated with their lifestyles. Obligate intracellular bacteria (i.e., mutualists and parasites) have small genomes that derived from larger free-living bacterial ancestors; however, the different steps of bacterial specialization from free-...
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BioMed Central
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2688493/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19361336 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-4-13 |