Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Promoter capture drives the emergence of proto-genes in Escherichia coli
Md. Hassan uz-Zaman, Simon D’Alton, Jeffrey E. Barrick, Howard Ochman
The paper identifies proto-genes in E. coli by analyzing the LTEE dataset, showing non-genic sequences evolve transcription and translation, often due to promoter formation and chromosomal events.
DOI 10.1101/2023.11.15.567300