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Comparative Study
. 1979 Jun 8;204(4397):1082-4.
doi: 10.1126/science.377486.

DNA organization of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum

R M Mitchell, L A Loeblich, L C Klotz, A R Loeblich 3rd
Comparative Study

DNA organization of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum

R M Mitchell et al. Science. .

Abstract

The organism Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, an archaebacterium, is envolutionarily very distant from both traditional prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Its genome (DNA) has physical characteristics typical of most prokaryotes except that it is quite small (about 10(9) daltons, less than half the size of the genome of Escherichia coli) and contains a significant amount (6 percent) DNA which renatures extremely rapidly.

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