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Evolution-driving genes.
Research in microbiology - 1 Mar 2000
Radman M, Taddei F, Matic I
Abstract excerpt
Genomic sequences provide evidence for a common origin of life and its evolution via selection of genetic variants created by mutation and recombination. Two classes of genes are known to accelerate mutation and/or recombination rates in bacterial populations: stress-inducible wild-type genes, usually part of the SOS regulon, and genes whose functional loss, or downregulation, increases the rate of genetic...
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