Toxin-antitoxin loci are highly abundant in free-living but lost from host-associated prokaryotes.

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Published in Nucleic Acids Res on February 17, 2005

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Deo Prakash Pandey1, Kenn Gerdes

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1: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.

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