Reductive genome evolution at both ends of the bacterial population size spectrum

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 841-850

  Batut, Bérénice ^a,b   Knibbe, Carole ^a   Marais, Gabriel ^a   Daubin, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BUCHNERA; CODON USAGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA REPAIR; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME SIZE; HYPOTHESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; REDUCTION; REVIEW; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; BUCHNERA; CYANOBACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 84911807786     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3331     Document Type: Review

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