Reductive evolution is the process by which microorganisms remove genes from their genome. It can occur when bacteria found in a free-living state enter...

bacteria, but organelles). Rickettsiales genomes are undergoing reductive evolution and are typically small (generally < 1,5 Mbp), AT-rich (generally...

deletion and decay that the genome of the species has experienced via reductive evolution, which has caused the bacterium to depend heavily on its host for...

Also, reductive evolution is present in E. canis. The genome has had a severe loss of metabolic pathway enzymes compared to its ancestors. Reductive evolution...

were lost or downregulated. This process, called genome erosion or reductive evolution, has been described in several other lactic acid bacteria. The proposed...

The Black Queen hypothesis (BQH) is a reductive evolution theory which seeks to explain how natural selection (as opposed to genetic drift) can drive...

intracellular species have positive fitness effects on their hosts. The reductive evolution model has been proposed as an effort to define the genomic commonalities...

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Caetano-Anollés D, Mittenthal JE, Caetano-Anollés G (November 2007). "Reductive evolution of architectural repertoires in proteomes and the birth of the tripartite...

driving force of evolution on a large scale, but rather it is abiotic factors. The Black Queen hypothesis is a theory of reductive evolution that suggests...