The Evolution of Bacterial Genome Architecture

The genome architecture of bacteria and eukaryotes evolves in opposite directions when subject to genetic drift, a difference that can be ascribed to the fact that bacteria exhibit a mutational bias that deletes superfluous sequences, whereas eukaryotes are biased toward large insertions. Expansion...

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Main Authors: Louis-Marie Bobay, Howard Ochman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2017.00072/full