The life-cycle of operons.
Operons are a major feature of all prokaryotic genomes, but how and why operon structures vary is not well understood. To elucidate the life-cycle of operons, we compared gene order between Escherichia coli K12 and its relatives and identified the recently formed and destroyed operons in E. coli. Th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2006-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS Genetics |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1480536?pdf=render |