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Genomic fluidity: an integrative view of gene diversity within microbial populations.
BMC genomics - 13 Jan 2011
Kislyuk Andrey O, Haegeman Bart, Bergman Nicholas H, Weitz Joshua S
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BACKGROUND: The dual concepts of pan and core genomes have been widely adopted as means to assess the distribution of gene families within microbial species and genera. The core genome is the set of genes shared by a group of organisms; the pan genome is the set of all genes seen in any of these organisms. A variety of methods have provided drastically different estimates of the sizes of pan and core genomes from...
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