Mismatch repair: origin of species?
Mismatch repair reverses replication errors and inhibits recombination between diverged sequences. This has been suggested to be important in speciation, especially in prokaryotes, but theoretical analysis indicates that genetic divergence in bacterial populations is not constrained by naturally occurring recombination levels.
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Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics; D004260:DNA Repair; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D012098:Reproduction; D013014:SOS Response, Genetics