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Persistence of Environmental DNA in Freshwater Ecosystems

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Optimal Strategy for Competence Differentiation in Bacteria

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The Evolutionary Enigma of Sex

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Episodic Selection and the Maintenance of Competence and Natural Transformation in Bacillus subtilis

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Why do bacteria engage in homologous recombination?

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Adaptive value of sex in microbial pathogens

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Massive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bdelloid Rotifers

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