Safety in numbers: multiple occurrences of highly similar homologs among Azotobacter vinelandii carbohydrate metabolism proteins probably confer adaptive benefits

BACKGROUND: Gene duplication and horizontal gene transfer are common processes in bacterial and archaeal genomes, and are generally assumed to result in either diversification or loss of the redundant gene copies. However, a recent analysis of the genome of the soil bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii...

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Autores principales: Mærk, Mali, Johansen, Jostein, Ertesvåg, Helga, Drabløs, Finn, Valla, Svein
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24625193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-192

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24625193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-192

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