Chromosome arrangement within a bacterium
Background: The contour length of the circular chromosome of bacteria is greater than a millimeter but must be accommodated within a cell that is only a few micrometers in length. Bacteria do not have nucleosomes and little is known about the arrangement of the chromosome inside a prokaryotic cell....
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Elsevier,
2014-01-10T15:12:28Z.
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