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. 1991 Jan 3;349(6304):29-31.
doi: 10.1038/349029a0.

Localized sex in bacteria

J M Smith  1 , C G Dowson, B G Spratt
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Localized sex in bacteria

J M Smith et al. Nature. .

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?

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