A bacterial genome in transition - an exceptional enrichment of IS elements but lack of evidence for recent transposition in the symbiont Amoebophilus asiaticus

BACKGROUND: Insertion sequence (IS) elements are important mediators of genome plasticity and are widespread among bacterial and archaeal genomes. The 1.88 Mbp genome of the obligate intracellular amoeba symbiont Amoebophilus asiaticus contains an unusually large number of transposase genes (n = 354...

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Main Authors: Schmitz-Esser, Stephan, Penz, Thomas, Spang, Anja, Horn, Matthias
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196728/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21943072
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-270
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