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- Title
The dawn of evolutionary genome engineering.
- Authors
Pál, Csaba; Papp, Balázs; Pósfai, György
- Abstract
Genome engineering strategies - such as genome editing, reduction and shuffling, and de novo genome synthesis - enable the modification of specific genomic locations in a directed and combinatorial manner. These approaches offer an unprecedented opportunity to study central evolutionary issues in which natural genetic variation is limited or biased, which sheds light on the evolutionary forces driving complex and extremely slowly evolving traits; the selective constraints on genome architecture; and the reconstruction of ancestral states of cellular structures and networks.
- Subjects
GENOMICS; CONVERGENT evolution; BACTERIAL genomes; MOLECULAR structure of oligonucleotides; BACTERIAL growth
- Publication
Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014, Vol 15, Issue 7, p504
- ISSN
1471-0056
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrg3746