Decreases in average bacterial community rRNA operon copy number during succession
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rRNA operon copy number reflects ecological strategies of bacteria.
Although natural selection appears to favor the elimination of gene redundancy in prokaryotes, multiple copies of each rRNA-encoding gene are common on bacterial chromosomes. Despite this conspicuous deviation from single-copy genes, no phenotype has been consistently associated with rRNA gene copy number. We found that the number of rRNA genes correlates with the rate at which phylogenetically...
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عنوان ژورنال: The ISME Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1751-7362,1751-7370
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.191