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Selection-Driven Gene Loss in Bacteria
Gene loss by deletion is a common evolutionary process in bacteria, as exemplified by bacteria with small genomes that have evolved from bacteria with larger genomes by reductive processes. The driving force(s) for genome reduction remains unclear, and here we examined the hypothesis that gene loss...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3386194/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22761588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002787 |