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Frequent recombination in a saltern population of Halorubrum.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 10 Dec 2004
Papke R Thane, Koenig Jeremy E, Rodríguez-Valera Francísco, Doolittle W Ford
Abstract excerpt
Sex and recombination are driving forces in the evolution of eukaryotes. Homologous recombination is known to be the dominant process in the divergence of many bacterial species. For Archaea, the only direct evidence bearing on the importance or natural occurrence of homologous recombination is anecdotal reports of mosaicism from comparative genomic studies. Genetic studies, however, reveal that recombination may...
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