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Distinct, ecotype-specific genome and proteome signatures in the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus.
BMC genomics - 10 Feb 2010
Paul Sandip, Dutta Anirban, Bag Sumit K, Das Sabyasachi, Dutta Chitra
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BACKGROUND: The marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus, having multiple ecotypes of distinct genotypic/phenotypic traits and being the first documented example of genome shrinkage in free-living organisms, offers an ideal system for studying niche-driven molecular micro-diversity in closely related microbes. The present study, through an extensive comparative analysis of various genomic/proteomic features...
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