RAPID AND DYNAMIC. “Because the dynamic microbial niche is redefined after every horizontal gene transfer, lineage separation would occur if the populations exploring two newly derived niches were both successful. Surveys among closely related bacterial species support the hypothesis that the differences between them arose primarily by gene loss and gene acquisition, not by mutational processes.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022