Reductive evolution is the process by which microorganisms remove genes from their genome. It can occur when bacteria found in a free-living state enter...

bacteria, but organelles). Rickettsiales genomes are undergoing reductive evolution and are typically small (generally < 1.5 Mbp), AT-rich (generally...

deletion and decay that the genome of the species has experienced via reductive evolution, which has caused the bacterium to depend heavily on its host for...

Also, reductive evolution is present in E. canis. The genome has had a severe loss of metabolic pathway enzymes compared to its ancestors. Reductive evolution...

were lost or downregulated. This process, called genome erosion or reductive evolution, has been described in several other lactic acid bacteria. The proposed...

The Black Queen hypothesis (BQH) is a reductive evolution theory which seeks to explain how natural selection (as opposed to genetic drift) can drive...

hominins (a tribe of the African hominid subfamily), indicating that human evolution was not linear but weblike. The study of the origins of humans involves...

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...

PMID 8610134. Andersson, Siv G.E.; Kurland, Charles G. (July 1998). "Reductive evolution of resident genomes". Trends in Microbiology. 6 (7): 263–268. doi:10...

case, herpesviruses appear to have lost most of these genes through reductive evolution. Outside of the realm, an HK97-like fold is only found in encapsulins...

Gueneau de Novoa P, Williams KP (January 2004). "The tmRNA website: reductive evolution of tmRNA in plastids and other endosymbionts". Nucleic Acids Research...

prevalence in an area with low prevalence of flea infestation. Through reductive evolution, the average genome size of M. haemofelis has been decreased to 1...

driving force of evolution on a large scale, but rather it is abiotic factors. The Black Queen hypothesis is a theory of reductive evolution that suggests...

"Phylogenomics of a new fungal phylum reveals multiple waves of reductive evolution across Holomycota". Nature Communications. 12 (1): 4973. Bibcode:2021NatCo...

"Phylogenomic Evidence for the Monophyly of Bryophytes and the Reductive Evolution of Stomata". Current Biology. 30 (11): P2201–2012.E2. Bibcode:2020CBio...

intracellular species have positive fitness effects on their hosts. The reductive evolution model has been proposed as an effort to define the genomic commonalities...

and Paratrimastix. This group is studied as a model system for reductive evolution of mitochondria, because it includes both organisms with anaerobic...

"Phylogenomics of a new fungal phylum reveals multiple waves of reductive evolution across Holomycota". Nature Communications. 12 (1): 4973. Bibcode:2021NatCo...

flagella would be selected by evolution first, but the T3SS evolving from the flagellum can be seen as 'reductive evolution', and receives no topological...

The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history...

In laboratory culture, the S-layer and capsule are often lost by reductive evolution (the loss of a trait in absence of positive selection). The Gram-negative...

Caetano-Anollés D, Mittenthal JE, Caetano-Anollés G (November 2007). "Reductive evolution of architectural repertoires in proteomes and the birth of the tripartite...

biochemical reactions used by some bacteria. It is also known as the reductive acetyl-coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) pathway. This pathway enables these organisms...

"Phylogenomic Evidence for the Monophyly of Bryophytes and the Reductive Evolution of Stomata". Current Biology. 30 (11): P2201–2012.E2. Bibcode:2020CBio...

"Phylogenomics of a new fungal phylum reveals multiple waves of reductive evolution across Holomycota". Nature Communications. 12 (1). doi:10.1038/S41467-021-25308-W...

AV, Tsaousis AD, Hirt RP, Embley TM (March 2010). "Diversity and reductive evolution of mitochondria among microbial eukaryotes". Philosophical Transactions...

in size. The small genome size of phytoplasma is attributable to reductive evolution from Bacillus/Clostridium[dubious – discuss] ancestors. Phytoplasmas...

their hosts. These genes are believed to have been lost through reductive evolution. The novel bacterium was discovered in 2008 following the autopsy...

frequently said to be "small, highly derived products of several types of reductive evolution". The recent discovery of another parallel between Rickettsia and...

The evolution of mammals has passed through many stages since the first appearance of their synapsid ancestors in the Pennsylvanian sub-period of the...