Genes | |
Factors Behind Junk DNA in Bacteria | |
Rosario Gil1  | |
[1] Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat de València, Apartado Postal 22085, 46071 València, Spain; Departament de Genètica, Universitat de València, Dr. Moliner, 50, 46100 Burjassot (València), Spain | |
关键词: junk DNA; pseudogenes; intergenic regions (IGR); insertion sequences (IS); genome degradation; | |
DOI : 10.3390/genes3040634 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
Although bacterial genomes have been traditionally viewed as being very compact, with relatively low amounts of repetitive and non-coding DNA, this view has dramatically changed in recent years. The increase of available complete bacterial genomes has revealed that many species present abundant repetitive DNA (
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