Localized sex in bacteria |
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| Authors: | J M Smith C G Dowson B G Spratt |
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| Affiliation: | School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. |
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| Abstract: | Electrophoretic studies suggest that bacterial populations consist of a number of independent clones and that genetic recombination is rare in nature. But DNA sequencing reveals that individual bacterial genes have a mosaic structure that could have arisen only by recombination. How can these observations be reconciled and what is their relevance to prokaryotic evolution? |
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