A neutral process of genome reduction in marine bacterioplankton
Xiaojun Wang, Mei Xie, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Yee Kei Ho, Ying Sun, Xiao Chu, Shuangfei Zhang, Victoria Ringel, Hui Wang, Xiao-Hua Zhang, Zongze Shao, Yanlin Zhao, Thorsten Brinkhoff, Jörn Petersen, Irene Wagner-Döbler, Haiwei Luo
The paper investigates genome reduction in marine bacterioplankton, finding that neutral processes like genetic drift, not streamlining selection, drive genome size reduction in the Roseobacter group.
bioRxiv · Feb 4, 2024 · PreprintMicrobiology