The "domino theory" of gene death: Gradual and mass gene extinction events in three lineages of obligate symbiotic bacterial pathogens

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 310-316

  Dagan, Tal ^a   Blekhman, Ran ^b,d   Graur, Dan ^c  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome reduction; Mycobacterium leprae; Obligate symbioints; Salmonella typhi; Shigella flexneri; Unitary pseudogenes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOGENE; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 30744477003     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msj036     Document Type: Article

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