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The predominant clonal evolution (PCE) concept of microbial pathogens and its practical usefulness

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Recombination vs. clonality -- Neo-Pasteurian era -- Looking for the common denominator among parasitic protozoa, fungi, bacteria and viruses -- PCE = salami slicing model -- No PCE – frequent recombination: soup model -- Recombinational load -- The PCE concept -- Linkage disequilibrium: restrained recombination -- Near-clading -- Parity between phylogenetic trees -- Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) -- The "Russian doll" model -- Practical implications of the PCE approach -- The clonet concept -- Revisiting the phylogenetic species concept (PSC) -- Applying the PCE approach to a given species.…”
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The implicit genome

Table of Contents: “…Kirkpatrick -- Nuclear duality and the genesis of unusual genomes in ciliated protozoa / Carolyn L. Jahn -- Editing informational content of expressed DNA sequences and their transcripts / Harold C. …”
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