Localized sex in bacteria.
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?
Smith
J M
JM
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Dowson
C G
CG
Spratt
B G
BG
D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics*; D003227:Conjugation, Genetic; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry*; D011995:Recombination, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D013045:Species Specificity; D014169:Transformation, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*
D004269:DNA, Bacterial