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Adaptation through genetic time travel? Fluctuating selection can drive the evolution of bacterial transformation
Natural transformation is a process whereby bacteria actively take up DNA from the surrounding environment and incorporate it into their genome. Natural transformation is widespread in bacteria, but its evolutionary significance is still debated. Here, we hypothesize that transformation may confer a...
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The Royal Society
2014
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| Online Access: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3866407/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24285199 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2609 |
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