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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |