Reconstruction of the evolution of microbial defense systems
Abstract Background Evolution of bacterial and archaeal genomes is a highly dynamic process that involves intensive loss of genes as well as gene gain via horizontal transfer, with a lesser contribution from gene duplication. The rates of these processes can be estimated by comparing genomes that ar...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-04-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-017-0942-y |