Accelerated evolution associated with genome reduction in a free-living prokaryote

BACKGROUND: Three complete genomes of Prochlorococcus species, the smallest and most abundant photosynthetic organism in the ocean, have recently been published. Comparative genome analyses reveal that genome shrinkage has occurred within this genus, associated with a sharp reduction in G+C content....

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Autores principales: Dufresne, Alexis, Garczarek, Laurence, Partensky, Frédéric
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC551534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15693943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2005-6-2-r14

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC551534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15693943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2005-6-2-r14

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