Horizontal gene transfer and nucleotide compositional anomaly in large DNA viruses

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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Main Authors: Ogata Hiroyuki, Claverie Jean-Michel, Monier Adam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-12-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/456

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