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Genome degradation is an ongoing process in Rickettsia.

Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Sept 1999

Andersson J O, Andersson S G

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To study reductive evolutionary processes in bacterial genomes, we examine sequences in the Rickettsia genomes which are unconstrained by selection and evolve as pseudogenes, one of which is the metK gene, which codes for AdoMet synthetase. Here, we sequenced the metK gene and three surrounding g...

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PMID: 10486973
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026208

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