Horizontal gene transfer can rescue prokaryotes from Muller's ratchet: Benefit of DNA from dead cells and population subdivision

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 325-339

  Takeuchi, Nobuto ^a,b   Kaneko, Kunihiko ^b   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Competence; Environmental DNA; Evolution of transformation; Soil bacteria; Structured population

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

COMPETENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DNA; EVOLUTION OF TRANSFORMATION; SOIL BACTERIA; STRUCTURED POPULATION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CELL DEATH; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84894561208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.113.009845     Document Type: Article

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