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Optimal strategy for competence differentiation in bacteria.

PLoS genetics - 9 Sept 2010

Wylie C Scott, Trout Aaron D, Kessler David A, Levine Herbert

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A phylogenetically diverse subset of bacterial species are naturally competent for transformation by DNA. Transformation entails recombination of genes between different lineages, representing a form of bacterial sex that increases standing genetic variation. We first assess whether homologous recombination by transformation is favored by evolution. Using stochastic population genetic computer simulations in...

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PMID: 20838595
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001108
PMCID: PMC2936531

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