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Mosaic structure of large regions of the Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris chromosome.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Nov 1994
Delorme C, Godon J J, Ehrlich S D, Renault P
Abstract excerpt
Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis and Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris are closely related phenotypically and genetically. Here we report that certain regions of their chromosomes diverge considerably more than others. Conserved regions differ by less than 20%, whilst variable regions differ by more than 60%. This mosaic structure may have arisen by horizontal gene transfer from distantly related bacteria since...
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