EVOLUTIONARY DOWNSIZING. “The restrictive lifestyle of obligate intracellular bacteria can lead to a near minimal genome state that encodes only essential functions. This reduction is associated with a genome-wide deletion bias, population bottlenecks, and relaxed selection due to the ability of the bacteria to acquire nutrients from the host cell rather than synthesize them.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022