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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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BioMed Central
2005
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| 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 |