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

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 the reduc...

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Autores principales: Morris, J. Jeffrey, Lenski, Richard E., Zinser, Erik R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society of Microbiology 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3315703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22448042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00036-12