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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Journal article

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Primary research

Year

2012

DOI

10.1371/journal.pgen.1002787

Link

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002787

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cognitive_science

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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.

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