Genome reduction is associated with bacterial pathogenicity across different scales of temporal and ecological divergence
G. G. R. Murray, J. Charlesworth, E. L. Miller, M. J. Casey, C. T. Lloyd, M. Gottschalk, A. W. Tucker, J. J. Welch, L. A. Weinert
The paper investigates whether genome reduction is linked to bacterial pathogenicity across different scales of divergence and finds it consistently associated with reduced genome size in pathogens.
bioRxiv · Jul 3, 2020Evolutionary Biology