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Review
. 1996 May;12(5):192-6.
doi: 10.1016/0168-9525(96)30014-0.

Complications and implications of linear bacterial chromosomes

C W Chen  1
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Complications and implications of linear bacterial chromosomes

C W Chen. Trends Genet. 1996 May.

Abstract

The emergence of linear bacterial chromosomes has overthrown the dogma of universal circularity of the bacterial chromosomes, and posed mechanistic and evolutionary implications not previously anticipated.

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