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Evolution by leaps: gene duplication in bacteria

BACKGROUND: Sequence related families of genes and proteins are common in bacterial genomes. In Escherichia coli they constitute over half of the genome. The presence of families and superfamilies of proteins suggest a history of gene duplication and divergence during evolution. Genome encoded prote...

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Autores principales: Serres, Margrethe H, Kerr, Alastair RW, McCormack, Thomas J, Riley, Monica
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2787491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19930658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-4-46