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The population and evolutionary dynamics of homologous gene recombination in bacterial populations.
PLoS genetics - 1 Aug 2009
Levin Bruce R, Cornejo Omar E
Abstract excerpt
In bacteria, recombination is a rare event, not a part of the reproductive process. Nevertheless, recombination -- broadly defined to include the acquisition of genes from external sources, i.e., horizontal gene transfer (HGT) -- plays a central role as a source of variation for adaptive evolution in many species of bacteria. Much of niche expansion, resistance to antibiotics and other environmental stresses,...
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