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Persistence drives gene clustering in bacterial genomes

Gang Fang, Eduardo PC Rocha and Antoine Danchin*

BMC Genomics 2008, 9:4 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-4

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Relationship between operon preference and functional properties of persistent genes in bacterial genomes

Marit S Bratlie, Jostein Johansen, Finn Drabløs BMC Genomics 2010, 11:71 (28 January 2010)

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Signature proteins for the major clades of Cyanobacteria

Radhey S Gupta, Divya W Mathews BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:24 (25 January 2010)

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Highly plastic genome of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806, a ubiquitous toxic freshwater cyanobacterium

Lionel Frangeul, Philippe Quillardet, Anne-Marie Castets, Jean-François Humbert, Hans CP Matthijs, Diego Cortez, Andrew Tolonen, Cheng-Cai Zhang, Simonetta Gribaldo, Jan-Christoph Kehr, Yvonne Zilliges, Nadine Ziemert, Sven Becker, Emmanuel Talla, Amel Latifi, Alain Billault, Anthony Lepelletier, Elke Dittmann, Christiane Bouchier, Nicole Tandeau de Marsac BMC Genomics 2008, 9:274 (5 June 2008)

The cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa can produce toxic blooms and lives in a wide range of freshwater ecosystems, which is reflected in a highly plastic genome that includes many transposases and potentially novel restriction enzymes.