Operon formation is driven by co-regulation and not by horizontal gene transfer.

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Published in Genome Res on June 01, 2005

Authors

Morgan N Price1, Katherine H Huang, Adam P Arkin, Eric J Alm

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1: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley California, 94720 USA.

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