Selection for Reducing Energy Cost of Protein Production Drives the GC Content and Amino Acid Composition Bias in Gene Transfer Agents

Selection for Reducing Energy Cost of Protein Production Drives the GC Content and Amino Acid Composition Bias in Gene Transfer Agents

Kin selection and group selection remain controversial topics in evolutionary biology. We argue that these types of selection are likely to operate in bacterial populations by showing that bacterial gene transfer agents (GTAs), but not related viruses, evolve under conditions of positive selection f...

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Main Authors: Roman Kogay, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin, Olga Zhaxybayeva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-07-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
gta
nutrient depletion
metabolic efficiency
virus exaptation
alphaproteobacteria
bacteriophages
energy saving
gene transfer agents
positive selection
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01206-20

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https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01206-20

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