Reconstructing the ancestor of Mycobacterium leprae: The dynamics of gene loss and genome reduction

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Figure 5.
Figure 5.

Distribution of genes with the status of absent genes in Mle. The chromosomal position of these genes in the ancestor’s genome has been analyzed. Absent genes may be isolated (block size = 1, although they are not blocks, we called them blocks of a single gene with the aim of simplifying the figure) or in blocks of several contiguous absent genes (size range 2–37).

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  1. Published in Advance July 10, 2007, doi: 10.1101/gr.6360207 Genome Res. 17: 1178-1185

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