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Comparative Analysis of Codon Usage Bias Patterns in Microsporidian Genomes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Xiang Heng, Zhang Ruizhi, Butler Robert R, Liu Tie, Zhang Li, Pombert Jean-François, Zhou Zeyang
Abstract excerpt
The sub-3 Mbp genomes from microsporidian species of the Encephalitozoon genus are the smallest known among eukaryotes and paragons of genomic reduction and compaction in parasites. However, their diminutive stature is not characteristic of all Microsporidia, whose genome sizes vary by an order of magnitude. This large variability suggests that different evolutionary forces are applied on the group as a whole. In...
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