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Evolution of variation in presence and absence of genes in bacterial pathways

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, April 2012
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Title
Evolution of variation in presence and absence of genes in bacterial pathways
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, April 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-12-55
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Authors

Andrew R Francis, Mark M Tanaka

Abstract

Bacterial genomes exhibit a remarkable degree of variation in the presence and absence of genes, which probably extends to the level of individual pathways. This variation may be a consequence of the significant evolutionary role played by horizontal gene transfer, but might also be explained by the loss of genes through mutation. A challenge is to understand why there would be variation in gene presence within pathways if they confer a benefit only when complete.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 2 6%
Sweden 1 3%
Australia 1 3%
Saudi Arabia 1 3%
Unknown 26 84%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 32%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 16%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 13%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 3 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 68%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 6%
Engineering 2 6%
Mathematics 1 3%
Neuroscience 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 3 10%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 November 2019.
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#4,239,068
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1,081
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#26,783
of 173,920 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#8
of 34 outputs
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