Fascinating - I'll have to make time to dig into this one later.
"Many purported pseudogenes in bacterial genomes are bona-fide genes"
https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-024-10137-0
Many purported pseudogenes in bacterial genomes are bona fide genes - BMC Genomics
Background Microbial genomes are largely comprised of protein coding sequences, yet some genomes contain many pseudogenes caused by frameshifts or internal stop codons.BioMed Central