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Studying microbial genomics has shown that the genomes of bacteria are extremely dynamic in evolutionary terms. Many research groups have linked the adaptation of an organism to a niche to large changes in genome size and content. A number of recent papers have underlined the degree to which the genomes of different organisms are a reflection of the opportunities and constraints imposed by their chosen niche.
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Thomson, N., Bentley, S., Holden, M. et al. Fitting the niche by genomic adaptation. Nat Rev Microbiol 1, 92–93 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro756
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