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Evolution of genome fragility enables microbial division of labor.
Molecular systems biology - 9 Mar 2023
Colizzi Enrico Sandro, van Dijk Bram, Merks Roeland M H, Rozen Daniel E, Vroomans Renske M A
Abstract excerpt
Division of labor can evolve when social groups benefit from the functional specialization of its members. Recently, a novel means of coordinating the division of labor was found in the antibiotic-producing bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor, where specialized cells are generated through large-scale genomic re-organization. We investigate how the evolution of a genome architecture enables such mutation-driven...
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