A phylogenomic study quantifies competing mechanisms for pseudogenization in prokaryotes—The Mycobacterium leprae case

• Eliran Avni,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and the Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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• Dennis Montoya,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dept. of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology; University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of America

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• David Lopez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dept. of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology; University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of America

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• Robert Modlin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, and Division of Dermatology, David Geffen School of Medicine University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of America

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• Matteo Pellegrini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Matteo Pellegrini, Sagi Snir

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dept. of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology; University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of America

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• Sagi Snir

  Contributed equally to this work with: Matteo Pellegrini, Sagi Snir

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ssagi@research.haifa.ac.il

  Affiliation Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and the Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5833-7659

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