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Why Might Bacterial Pathogens Have Small Genomes?
Bacteria that cause serious disease often have smaller genomes, and fewer genes, than their nonpathogenic, or less pathogenic relatives. Here, we review evidence for the generality of this association, and summarise the various...
Genome Reduction Is Associated with Bacterial Pathogenicity across Different Scales of Temporal and Ecological Divergence.
Gemma GR Murray, Jane Charlesworth, Eric L Miller, Michael J Casey, Catrin T Lloyd, Marcelo Gottschalk, Alexander W Dan Tucker, John J Welch, Lucy A Weinert
Dec 07, 2020
Emerging bacterial pathogens threaten global health and food security, and so it is important to ask whether these transitions to pathogenicity have any common features. We present a systematic study of the claim that...