Transient Hypermutagenesis Accelerates the Evolution of Legume Endosymbionts following Horizontal Gene Transfer

PLoS Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Remigi, Philippe ^a,g   Capela, Delphine ^a   Clerissi, Camille ^a   Tasse, Léna ^a   Torchet, Rachel ^b   Bouchez, Olivier ^c,d   Batut, Jacques ^a   Cruveiller, Stéphane ^b   Rocha, Eduardo P C ^e,f   Masson Boivin, Catherine ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UMR1388 GenPhySE   (France)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^g MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; ABC TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CUPRIAVIDUS; CUPRIAVIDUS TAIWANENSIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYPERMUTAGENESIS; IMUABC GENE; LEGUME; MIMOSA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SOIL MICROFLORA; ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; FABACEAE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CUPRIAVIDUS TAIWANENSIS; EUKARYOTA; MIMOSA; PROKARYOTA; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CUPRIAVIDUS; FABACEAE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MIMOSA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84920453186     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001942     Document Type: Article

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