Photosynthesizing Bacteria With A Day-night Cycle Contain Rare Chromosome
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers sequencing the DNA of the blue-green algae Cyanothece 51142 found a linear chromosome harboring genes important for producing biofuels. Simultaneously analyzing the complement of proteins revealed more genes on the linear and typical circular chromosomes then they'd have found with DNA sequencing alone.