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The Evolution of Bacterial Genome Architecture
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Bobay LM
; Ochman H
Front Genet
2017[]; 8
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The genome architecture of bacteria and eukaryotes evolves in opposite directions
when subject to genetic drift, a difference that can be ascribed to the fact that
bacteria exhibit a mutational bias that deletes superfluous sequences, whereas
eukaryotes are biased toward large insertions. Expansion of eukaryotic genomes
occurs through the addition of non-functional sequences, such as repetitive
sequences and transposable elements, whereas variation in bacterial genome size
is largely due to the acquisition and loss of functional accessory genes. These
properties create the situation in which eukaryotes with very similar numbers of
genes can have vastly different genome sizes, while in bacteria, gene number
scales linearly with genome size. Some bacterial genomes, however, particularly
those of species that undergo bottlenecks due to recent association with hosts,
accumulate pseudogenes and mobile elements, conferring them a low gene content
relative to their genome size. These non-functional sequences are gradually
eroded and eliminated after long-term association with hosts, with the result
that obligate symbionts have the smallest genomes of any cellular organism. The
architecture of bacterial genomes is shaped by complex and diverse processes, but
for most bacterial species, genome size is governed by a non-adaptive process,
i.e., genetic drift coupled with a mutational bias toward deletions. Thus,
bacteria with small effective population sizes typically have the smallest
genomes. Some marine bacteria counter this near-universal trend: despite having
immense population sizes, selection, not drift, acts to reduce genome size in
response to metabolic constraints in their nutrient-limited environment.