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On dynamics of overlapping genes in bacterial genomes.
Gene - 24 Dec 2003
Fukuda Yoko, Nakayama Yoichi, Tomita Masaru
Abstract excerpt
A genome-wide computational analysis of overlapping genes in various prokaryotic genomes was conducted to study the evolutionary rates of the formation and degradation of overlapping genes. Overlapping genes are adjacent genes that overlap partially or entirely. Overlapping gene pairs extracted from complete bacterial genome sequences were classified into three directional patterns, namely, 'convergent' (--><--),...
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