Article
[Old problems of new bacterial systematics].
Mikrobiologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Golovlev E L
Abstract excerpt
This review analyzes the situation that arose after the existence of adaptive mutations had been proven. Manifold acceleration of the mutation process and intragenome rearrangements in nondividing cells demonstrates the inapplicability of the theory of neutral evolution to bacteria, the lack of isochronism between the evolution of individual macromolecules and the organism as a whole, and thus, the invalidity of...
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