Molecular Biology and Evolution 19:1640-1643 (2002)
© 2002 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
The Rate of Recombination in Wolbachia Bacteria
Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK
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Knowledge of the rate at which recombination occurs is critical for understanding the evolution and population genetics of bacteria, because it both generates novel combinations of beneficial alleles and also prevents the accumulation of deleterious mutations. Furthermore, it may influence our interpretation of evolutionary patterns, for example, during comparative analyses of phylogenies.
I have examined the presence and rate of recombination in a group of predominantly vertically (maternally) transmitted bacterial symbionts, arthropod Wolbachia. It is expected that vertical transmission through one sex will reduce the frequency with which different bacterial strains will come into contact and may therefore reduce the rate of recombination. I assessed this effect by comparing arthropod Wolbachia data with smaller data sets from related obligate horizontally and vertically transmitted bacteria.
All the three taxa studied belong to the Rickettsiaceae, a family of alpha-proteobacterial symbionts that live within the cell cytoplasm of their hosts. Our main
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