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Genome expansion in bacteria: the curios case of Chlamydia trachomatis.
BMC research notes - 30 Sept 2015
Bohlin Jon
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BACKGROUND: Recent findings indicated that a correlation between genomic % AT and genome size within strains of microbial species was predominantly associated with the uptake of foreign DNA. One species however, Chlamydia trachomatis, defied any explanation. In the present study 79 fully sequenced C. trachomatis genomes, representing ocular- (nine strains), urogenital- (36 strains) and lymphogranuloma venereum...
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