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Dynamics of gene duplication and transposons in microbial genomes following a sudden environmental change.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics - 1 Feb 2011
Chia Nicholas, Goldenfeld Nigel
Abstract excerpt
A variety of genome transformations can occur as a microbial population adapts to a large environmental change. In particular, genomic surveys indicate that, following the transition to an obligate, host-dependent symbiont, the density of transposons first rises, then subsequently declines over evolutionary time. Here we show that these observations can be accounted for by a class of generic stochastic models for...
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