Less is more: Selective advantages can explain the prevalent loss of biosynthetic genes in bacteria

Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2559-2570

  D'Souza, Glen ^a   Waschina, Silvio ^a,b   Pande, Samay ^a   Bohl, Katrin ^b   Kaleta, Christoph ^b   Kost, Christian ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive gene loss; Auxotrophy; Black queen hypothesis; Cross feeding; Prototrophy; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GROWTH RATE; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; SURVIVORSHIP; SYMBIOSIS;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIA; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS;

EID: 84907962466     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12468     Document Type: Article

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