Why prokaryotes have pangenomes

McInerney, James O.; McNally, Alan; O'Connell, Mary J.

doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.40

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Reply to ‘The population genetics of pangenomes’ (2017)
Journal Article
McInerney, J. O., McNally, A., & O'Connell, M. J. (2017). Reply to ‘The population genetics of pangenomes’. Nature Microbiology, 2(12), Article 1575. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-017-0068-4

Why prokaryotes have pangenomes (2017)
Journal Article
McInerney, J. O., McNally, A., & O'Connell, M. J. (2017). Why prokaryotes have pangenomes. Nature Microbiology, 2(4), Article 17040. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.40

The existence of large amounts of within-species genome content variability is puzzling. Population genetics tells us that fitness effects of new variants—either deleterious, neutral or advantageous—combined with the long-term effective population si... Read More about Why prokaryotes have pangenomes.