MicrobiologybioRxivPreprint
A neutral process of genome reduction in marine bacterioplankton
Xiaojun Wang, Mei Xie, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Yee Kei Ho…·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.