McCutcheon, J. P. & Moran, N. A. (2012). Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria. Nature Reviews Microbiology 10(1): 13–26. doi:10.1038/nrmicro2670.
Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract. A reading should check it first.
Why this is here
A1 named it, with the Black Queen paper, as “the essential starting pair” for reductive evolution, and ranked it first of six additions. A1’s gloss is drift-driven reduction in small, vertically transmitted populations. The abstract describes the genomes and leaves the causes to the text, so a reading should check how far the review attributes the reduction to drift.