Clusters of orthologous genes for 41 archaeal genomes and implications for evolutionary genomics of archaea.

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Published in Biol Direct on November 27, 2007

Authors

Kira S Makarova1, Alexander V Sorokin, Pavel S Novichkov, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin

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1: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. makarova@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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