Reductive evolution of resident genomes.

doi:10.1016/s0966-842x(98)01312-2

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Reductive evolution of resident genomes.

Trends in microbiology - 1 Jul 1998

Andersson S G, Kurland C G

Abstract excerpt

Small, asexual populations are expected to accumulate deleterious substitutions and deletions in an irreversible manner, which in the long-term will lead to mutational meltdown and genome decay. Here, we discuss the influence of such reductive processes on the evolution of genomes that replicate...

Topics

Animals
Bacteria
Evolution, Molecular
Genome
Mutation
Recombination, Genetic

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