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Review
. 1999 Oct;2(5):524-8.
doi: 10.1016/s1369-5274(99)00011-9.

Codon usage and lateral gene transfer in Bacillus subtilis

I Moszer  1 , E P Rocha, A Danchin
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Review

Codon usage and lateral gene transfer in Bacillus subtilis

I Moszer et al. Curr Opin Microbiol. 1999 Oct.

Abstract

Bacillus subtilis possesses three classes of genes, differing by their codon preference. One class corresponds to prophages or prophage-like elements, indicative of the existence of systematic lateral gene transfer in this organism. The nature of the selection pressure that operates on codon bias is beginning to be understood.

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