Genome shuffling leads to rapid phenotypic improvement in bacteria.

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For millennia, selective breeding, on the basis of biparental mating, has led to the successful improvement of plants and animals to meet societal needs. At a molecular level, DNA shuffling mimics, yet accelerates, evolutionary processes, and allows the breeding and improvement of individual genes and subgenomic DNA fragments. We describe here whole-genome shuffling; a process that combines the advantage of...

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