Horizontal gene transfer and nucleotide compositional anomaly in large DNA viruses
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>DNA viruses have a wide range of genome sizes (5 kb up to 1.2 Mb, compared to 0.16 Mb to 1.5 Mb for obligate parasitic bacteria) that do not correlate with their virulence or the taxonomic distribution of their hosts. The reasons for...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2007-12-01
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| Series: | BMC Genomics |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/456 |