| Literature DB >> 1985260 |
J M Smith1, C G Dowson, B G Spratt.
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?Mesh：
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Year: 1991 PMID： 1985260 DOI： 10.1038/349029a0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nature ISSN： 0028-0836 Impact factor: 49.962