… as a cohesion mechanism within bacterial species: strains of the same species exchange
genes, … of homologous recombination work well in delineating some bacterial species. Yet one …

… that homologous recombination may frequently replace small regions of the genome of …
bacterium with those from other members of the same species or from closely related species …

… be incongruent within a bacterial species as a result of homologous recombination (as seen
… species, since these individuals would lie beyond the scope of homologous recombination, …

… Such loci are exempt from mutation or homologous recombination: we assume that HR
requires tracts of homology with incoming DNA, but these are absent after gene loss (Retchless …

… events at both edges of the species border. Hence, from the findings of this … on homologous
recombination is likely not high enough to strongly hamper gene flow between species as …

… , and we do so for seven bacterial species (Neisseria meningitidis, … that bacterial species
vary extensively in these fundamental parameters. Historically, the influence of recombination …

… bacteria to human. In addition to its role in the generation of genetic variability, homologous
recombination … the diversity of recombination proteins among 117 different bacterial species. …

… bacterial species as groups of strains that recombine with one … individuals of the same species
should be significantly different… step of homologous recombination? Trends Biochem. Sci. …

… While any satisfying definition of bacterial species remains elusive, the present work … and
recombination rates. Distinct clusters fail to arise where there are high levels of recombination …

… a variety of species revealed no clear … homologous recombination in bacteria (and archaea)
is equivalent to sex in eukaryotes. By shuffling around alleles, homologous recombination …