The black queen hypothesis: Evolution of dependencies through adaptive gene loss

mBio

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Morris, J Jeffrey ^a,b   Lenski, Richard E ^a,b   Zinser, Erik R ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLACK QUEEN HYPOTHESIS; CALCULATION; COEVOLUTION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; HYPOTHESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CANDIDATUS PELAGIBACTER; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 84860511582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00036-12     Document Type: Article

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