Genome reduction occurred in early Prochlorococcus with an unusually low effective population size
Hao Zhang, Ferdi L. Hellweger, Haiwei Luo
The paper uses agent-based modeling to show that drift, not selection, drove genome reduction in early Prochlorococcus by analyzing the dR/dC substitution ratio.
The ISME Journal · Jan 1, 2024Peer-reviewedGenetics