Localized sex in bacteria
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 349 (6304), 29-31
- https://doi.org/10.1038/349029a0
Abstract
Electrophoretic studies suggest that bacterial populations consist of a number of independent clones and that genetic recombination is rare in nature. But DNA sequencing reveals that individual bacterial genes have a mosaic structure that could have arisen only by recombination. How can these observations be reconciled and what is their relevance to prokaryotic evolution?Keywords
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