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Reduced Selective Constraint in Endosymbionts: Elevation in Radical Amino Acid Replacements Occurs Genome-Wide

As predicted by the nearly neutral model of evolution, numerous studies have shown that reduced N(e) accelerates the accumulation of slightly deleterious changes under genetic drift. While such studies have mostly focused on eukaryotes, bacteria also offer excellent models to explore the effects of...

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Autor principal: Wernegreen, Jennifer J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22194947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028905