Artículo:

GENETICS

Sub título:

Genome Streamlining in a Cosmopolitan Oceanic Bacterium

Autor:

Stephen J. Giovannoni

H. James Tripp

Scott Givan

Resumen:

A marine bacterium has a miniscule genome, free of junk DNA, probably because its huge population size allows selection against the small fitness cost of replicating nonfunctional DNA.

Página:

1242

Sección:

Research articles

Publicación:

Science

Volúmen:

309

Número:

5738

Fecha:

19 August 2005

ISSN:

00368075

SrcID:

00368075-2005-08-19.txt