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Shaping a bacterial genome by large chromosomal replacements, the evolutionary history of Streptococcus agalactiae.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Oct 2008
Brochet Mathieu, Rusniok Christophe, Couvé Elisabeth, Dramsi Shaynoor, Poyart Claire, Trieu-Cuot Patrick, Kunst Frank, Glaser Philippe
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Bacterial populations are subject to complex processes of diversification that involve mutation and horizontal DNA transfer mediated by transformation, transduction, or conjugation. Tracing the evolutionary events leading to genetic changes allows us to infer the history of a microbe. Here, we combine experimental and in silico approaches to explore the forces that drive the genome dynamics of Streptococcus...
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