Sexuality in a natural population of bacteria--Bacillus subtilis challenges the clonal paradigm.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-294x.1992.tb00161.x

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Sexuality in a natural population of bacteria--Bacillus subtilis challenges the clonal paradigm.

Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 1992

Istock C A, Duncan K E, Ferguson N, Zhou X

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Reproduction by binary fission necessarily establishes a clonal genotypic structure in bacterial populations unless a high rate of genetic recombination opposes it. Several genetic properties were examined for a wild population of Bacillus subtilis in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona to assess the e...

Topics

Bacillus subtilis
Biological Evolution
Cell Division
Ecosystem
Enzymes
Escherichia coli
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Linkage Disequilibrium
Recombination, Genetic

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