Article
Adaptation by Deletogenic Replication Slippage in a Nascent Symbiont.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Aug 2016
Clayton Adam L, Jackson D Grant, Weiss Robert B, Dale Colin
Abstract excerpt
As a consequence of population level constraints in the obligate, host-associated lifestyle, intracellular symbiotic bacteria typically exhibit high rates of molecular sequence evolution and extensive genome degeneration over the course of their host association. While the rationale for genome degeneration is well understood, little is known about the molecular mechanisms driving this change. To understand these...
Topics
- Acclimatization
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Bacteria
- DNA Replication
- DNA, Bacterial
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genome, Bacterial
- INDEL Mutation
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Symbiosis