DNA

H Ogata1, S Audic, V Barbe

  • 1Information Génétique & Structurale, CNRS-AVENTIS UMR 1889, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 13, 2000
PubMed
まとめ

Rickettsia conoriiのゲノム内で,新しい繰り返しDNA要素が発見されました. この元素は遺伝子に挿入され,潜在的に新しいタンパク質配列を作り,細菌の進化に影響を与えます.

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