Gene Exchange and Natural Selection Cause Bacillus subtilis to Evolve in Soil Culture
- 11 May 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 204 (4393) , 637-639
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.107592
Abstract
Strains of Bacillus subtilis exchange linked blocks of genes when growing together in soil; such exchange leads to extensive reorganization of the genotypic structure of the population and to the appearance and eventual dominance of a single phenotype. This process illustrates how recombination and selection lead to adaptive changes in populations.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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