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Defying Muller's Ratchet: Ancient Heritable Endobacteria Escape Extinction through Retention of Recombination and Genome Plasticity.

mBio - 21 Jun 2016

Naito Mizue, Pawlowska Teresa E

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Heritable endobacteria, which are transmitted from one host generation to the next, are subjected to evolutionary forces that are different from those experienced by free-living bacteria. In particular, they suffer consequences of Muller's ratchet, a mechanism that leads to extinction of small asexual populations due to fixation of slightly deleterious mutations combined with the random loss of the most-fit...

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PMID: 27329757
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02057-15
PMCID: PMC4916391

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