Photosynthesizing bacteria with a day-night cycle contain rare chromosome
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 07:14
in Biology & Nature
Researchers sequencing the DNA of blue-green algae found a linear chromosome harboring genes important for producing biofuels. Simultaneously analyzing the complement of proteins revealed more genes on the linear and the typical circular chromosomes then they'd have found with DNA sequencing alone.
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