Genome-wide survey of codons under diversifying selection in a highly recombining bacterial species, Helicobacter pylori

• Published in: DNA research Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 135 - 143
• Main Authors: Yahara, Koji, Furuta, Yoshikazu, Morimoto, Shinpei, Kikutake, Chie, Komukai, Sho, Matelska, Dorota, Dunin-Horkawicz, Stanisław, Bujnicki, Janusz M., Uchiyama, Ikuo, Kobayashi, Ichizo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.04.2016
• Subjects: Bacteria; Codon; Evolution, Molecular; Genetic Variation; Genome, Bacterial; Helicobacter pylori; Helicobacter pylori - genetics; Recombination, Genetic; Selection, Genetic

Selection has been a central issue in biology in eukaryotes as well as prokaryotes. Inference of selection in recombining bacterial species, compared with clonal ones, has been a challenge. It is not known how codons under diversifying selection are distributed along the chromosome or among function...