| Range |
Firmicutes (including mycoplasmas) 78%: other bacterial genomes 58% %
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| Organism |
bacteria |
| Reference |
Rocha EP. The replication-related organization of bacterial genomes. Microbiology. 2004 Jun150(Pt 6):1609-27. p.1613 left column top paragraphPubMed ID15184548
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| Primary Source |
Rocha, E. P. C. (2002). Is there a role for replication fork asymmetry in the distribution of genes in bacterial genomes? Trends Microbiol 10 , 393–396.PubMed ID12217498
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| Comments |
"A first systematic survey of gene strand bias showed that genomes could
have from 55 to 80% of genes in the leading strand, although systematically more than 85 % of ribosomal proteins were coded in the leading strand of these genomes (McLean
et al., 1998). In fact, 78 % of the genes of Firmicutes (including mycoplasmas) are in the leading
strand, compared with 58 % for the other genomes (primary source)." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
110940 |