Transient Duplication-Dependent Divergence and Horizontal Transfer Underlie the Evolutionary Dynamics of Bacterial Cell–Cell Signaling

• Eran Even-Tov ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eran Even-Tov, Shira Omer Bendori

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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• Shira Omer Bendori ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eran Even-Tov, Shira Omer Bendori

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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• Shaul Pollak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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• Avigdor Eldar

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: avigdore@tau.ac.il

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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