Selection-Driven Gene Loss in Bacteria¶
Koskiniemi, S., Sun, S., Berg, O. G., & Andersson, D. I. (2012). Selection-Driven Gene Loss in Bacteria. PLOS Genetics, 8(6).
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- Additive Bias
- In biology it appears as an analogous asymmetry — vestigial structures and genomic accretion — where adding features is incrementally easier under selection than coordinated removal.
This sourceShows that carrying superfluous genes confers a fitness cost and that selection can drive gene loss and reductive genome evolution — the biological case where selection does favor removal, the natural complement to the additive default.
- In biology it appears as an analogous asymmetry — vestigial structures and genomic accretion — where adding features is incrementally easier under selection than coordinated removal.
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