Conservation and evolution of the sporulation gene set in diverse members of the Firmicutes
M. Y. Galperin, N. Yutin, Y. I. Wolf, R. Vera Alvarez, E. V. Koonin
The paper analyzes sporulation gene conservation across 180 Firmicutes genomes to identify lineage-specific losses and confirm the vertical inheritance of sporulation genes.
bioRxiv · Feb 25, 2022Microbiology