Strong Genome-Wide Selection Early in the Evolution of Prochlorococcus Resulted in a Reduced Genome through the Loss of a Large Number of Small Effect Genes

Zhiyi Sun; Jeffrey L. Blanchard

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088837

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Strong Genome-Wide Selection Early in the Evolution of Prochlorococcus Resulted in a Reduced Genome through the Loss of a Large Number of Small Effect Genes

Zhiyi Sun,

Current address: New England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jeffrey L. Blanchard

* E-mail: jeffb@bio.umass.edu

Affiliations Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Strong Genome-Wide Selection Early in the Evolution of Prochlorococcus Resulted in a Reduced Genome through the Loss of a Large Number of Small Effect Genes

Zhiyi Sun,
Jeffrey L. Blanchard

Published: March 3, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088837

About the Authors

Zhiyi Sun

Current address: New England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey L. Blanchard

* E-mail: jeffb@bio.umass.edu

Affiliations Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZS JLB. Performed the experiments: ZS. Analyzed the data: ZS. Wrote the paper: ZS JLB.

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