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Steady at the wheel: conservative sex and the benefits of bacterial transformation

Many bacteria are highly sexual, but the reasons for their promiscuity remain obscure. Did bacterial sex evolve to maximize diversity and facilitate adaptation in a changing world, or does it instead help to retain the bacterial functions that work right now? In other words, is bacterial sex innovat...

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Autores principales: Ambur, Ole Herman, Engelstädter, Jan, Johnsen, Pål J., Miller, Eric L., Rozen, Daniel E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27619692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0528

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