A new selective force driving metabolic gene clustering

ABSTRACT The evolution of operons has puzzled evolutionary biologists since their discovery, and many theories exist to explain their emergence, spreading, and evolutionary conservation. In this work, we suggest that DNA replication introduces a selective force for the clustering of functionally rel...

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Main Authors: Marco Fondi, Francesco Pini, Christopher Riccardi, Pietro Gemo, Matteo Brilli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2024-11-01
Series:mSystems
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00960-24
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