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An AT mutational bias in the tiny GC-rich endosymbiont genome of Hodgkinia.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Jan 2012
Van Leuven James T, McCutcheon John P
Abstract excerpt
The fractional guanine + cytosine (GC) contents of sequenced bacterial genomes range from 13% to 75%. Despite several decades of research aimed at understanding this wide variation, the forces controlling GC content are not well understood. Recent work has suggested that a universal adenine + thymine (AT) mutational bias exists in all bacteria and that the elevated GC contents found in some bacterial genomes is...
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