Satellites in the prokaryote world

Abstract Background Satellites or tandem repeats are very abundant in many eukaryotic genomes. Occasionally they have been reported to be present in some prokaryotes, but to our knowledge there is no general comparative study on their occurrence. For this reason we present here an overview of the di...

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Main Authors: Juan A. Subirana, Xavier Messeguer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-09-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-019-1504-2