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Persistence drives gene clustering in bacterial genomes.
BMC genomics - 7 Jan 2008
Fang Gang, Rocha Eduardo P C, Danchin Antoine
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BACKGROUND: Gene clustering plays an important role in the organization of the bacterial chromosome and several mechanisms have been proposed to explain its extent. However, the controversies raised about the validity of each of these mechanisms remind us that the cause of this gene organization remains an open question. Models proposed to explain clustering did not take into account the function of the gene...
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