Steady at the wheel: Conservative sex and the benefits of bacterial transformation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1706, 2016, Pages

  Ambur, Ole Herman ^a   Engelstädter, Jan ^b   Johnsen, Pål J ^c   Miller, Eric L ^d   Rozen, Daniel E ^e  

^a OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial sex; Natural competence; Transformation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; REPRODUCTION; SEX; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84988624372     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0528     Document Type: Review

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