Selfish Operons: the Evolutionary Impact of Gene Clustering in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

Overview

Journal Curr Opin Genet Dev

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Biology
Genetics

Date 1999 Dec 23

PMID 10607610

Citations 106

Authors

J Lawrence

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Abstract

The Selfish Operon Model postulates that the organization of bacterial genes into operons is beneficial to the constituent genes in that proximity allows horizontal cotransfer of all genes required for a selectable phenotype; eukaryotic operons formed for very different reasons. Horizontal transfer of selfish operons most probably promotes bacterial diversification.

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