Propensity for proto-gene emergence in bacteria
Overall, our findings indicate that proto-genes regularly emerge in bacterial populations but that their sequence properties furnish little evidence that they serve as precursors to new genes.
Authors
- Howard Ochman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1688-7059)
- Md. Hassan uz‐Zaman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3929-247X)
Institutions
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Genome biology
- Published
- 2025-10-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03825-x
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.63
Funders
- University of Texas at Austin
- National Institutes of Health