An Appraisal of the Potential for Illegitimate Recombination in Bacterial Genomes and Its Consequences: From Duplications to Genome Reduction

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Figure 3
Figure 3

Examples of the generation of tandem repeats by recombination between close repeats. (A) Dot-plot of a triple close repeat (black boxes) of 19 nt, with duplicated spacers of 62 nt (gray boxes). This repeat corresponds to the positions 842830 to 843000 of the genome of M. pulmonis. Dots correspond to a minimum of 19 matches for an oligonucleotide of length 25. (B) A SPIDR element that has probably been engaged in illegitimate recombination. This element comes from regions 236560 to 238180 of the M. jannaschii genome.

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  1. Published in Advance May 12, 2003, doi: 10.1101/gr.966203 Genome Res. 13: 1123-1132

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