Horizontal gene transfer and diverse functional constrains within a common replication-partitioning system in <it>Alphaproteobacteria</it>: the <it>repABC </it>operon

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The <it>repABC </it>plasmid family, which is extensively present within <it>Alphaproteobacteria</it>, and some secondary chromosomes of the <it>Rhizobiales </it>have the particular feature that all...

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Main Authors: Cevallos Miguel A, González Víctor, Vázquez-Castellanos Jorge F, Castillo-Ramírez Santiago
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-11-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10/536