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The nature and dynamics of bacterial genomes.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 24 Mar 2006
Ochman Howard, Davalos Liliana M
Abstract excerpt
Though generally small and gene rich, bacterial genomes are constantly subjected to both mutational and population-level processes that operate to increase amounts of functionless DNA. As a result, the coding potential of bacterial genomes can be substantially lower than originally predicted. Whereas only a single pseudogene was included in the original annotation of the bacterium Escherichia coli, we estimate...
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