ArticleNature ecology & evolution2022
Prochlorococcus have low global mutation rate and small effective population size.
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Abstract
Prochlorococcus are the most abundant free-living photosynthetic carbon-fixing organisms in the ocean. Prochlorococcus show small genome sizes, low genomic G+C content, reduced DNA repair gene pool and fast evolutionary rates, which are typical features of endosymbiotic bacteria. Nevertheless, their evolutionary mechanisms are believed to be different. Evolution of endosymbiotic bacteria is dominated by genetic drift owing to repeated population bottlenecks, whereas Prochlorococcus are postulated to have extremely large effective population sizes (N
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