ArticleNature ecology & evolution2024
Pseudogenes act as a neutral reference for detecting selection in prokaryotic pangenomes.
Article in Nature ecology & evolution, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Adaptive pangenomic remodeling in the Azolla cyanobiont amid a transient microbiome.The ISME journal · 2025Article
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- How does evolution work in superabundant microbes?Trends in microbiology · 2024Review
- Bacterial lifestyle shapes pangenomes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- A panoply of pangenomes.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Many purported pseudogenes in bacterial genomes are bona fide genes.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- The population genetics of prokaryotic pangenomes.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
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Abstract
A long-standing question is to what degree genetic drift and selection drive the divergence in rare accessory gene content between closely related bacteria. Rare genes, including singletons, make up a large proportion of pangenomes (all genes in a set of genomes), but it remains unclear how many such genes are adaptive, deleterious or neutral to their host genome. Estimates of species' effective population sizes (N
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