Systematic determination of the mosaic structure of bacterial genomes: species backbone versus strain-specific loops

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Public databases now contain multitude of complete bacterial genomes, including several genomes of the same species. The available data offers new opportunities to address questions about bacterial genome evolution, a task that requi...

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Main Authors: Gendrault-Jacquemard A, Heuclin G, Sourivong F, Bourgait I, Chiapello H, Petit M-A, El Karoui M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2005-07-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/6/171