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Experimental Evolution of Metabolic Dependency in Bacteria
Bacteria frequently lose biosynthetic genes, thus making them dependent on an environmental uptake of the corresponding metabolite. Despite the ubiquity of this ‘genome streamlining’, it is generally unclear whether the concomitant loss of biosynthetic functions is favored by natural selection or ra...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5096674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27814362 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006364 |