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Genome-scale rates of evolutionary change in bacteria.
Microbial genomics - 1 Nov 2016
Duchêne Sebastian, Holt Kathryn E, Weill François-Xavier, Le Hello Simon, Hawkey Jane, Edwards David J, Fourment Mathieu, Holmes Edward C
Abstract excerpt
Estimating the rates at which bacterial genomes evolve is critical to understanding major evolutionary and ecological processes such as disease emergence, long-term host-pathogen associations and short-term transmission patterns. The surge in bacterial genomic data sets provides a new opportunity to estimate these rates and reveal the factors that shape bacterial evolutionary dynamics. For many organisms...
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