Evolution of small prokaryotic genomes

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Martínez Cano, David J ^a   Reyes Prieto, Mariana ^b   Martínez Romero, Esperanza ^c   Partida Martínez, Laila P ^a   Latorre, Amparo ^b   Moya, Andrés ^b   Delaye, Luis ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Black Queen Hypothesis; Endosymbiosis; Minimal genome size; Muller's ratchet; Reductive genome evolution; Robustness based selective reduction; Streamlining evolution; Symbionelle

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FUNGUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MICROBIAL GENOME; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOSIS;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84927929809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00742     Document Type: Article

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