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Conservative Sex and the Benefits of Transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Natural transformation has significant effects on bacterial genome evolution, but the evolutionary factors maintaining this mode of bacterial sex remain uncertain. Transformation is hypothesized to have both positive and negative evolutionary effects on bacteria. It can facilitate adaptation by comb...

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Autores principales: Engelmoer, Daniel J. P., Donaldson, Ian, Rozen, Daniel E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24244172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003758