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Featured Organism: Reductive evolution in bacteria: Buchnera sp., Rickettsia prowazekii and Mycobacterium leprae .

2001-02-01

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Obligate intracellular bacteria commonly have much reduced genome sizes compared to their nearest free-living relatives. One reason for this is reductive evolution: the loss of genes rendered non-essential due to the intracellular habitat. This can occur because of the presence of orthologous genes in the host, combined with the ability of the bacteria to import the protein or metabolite products of the host genes...

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Literature Corpus work: 685708c8-fea5-5947-b790-b1af2ad60719
DOI: 10.1002/cfg.70

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