mBio (Feb 2021)

Evolutionary Trajectory of the Replication Mode of Bacterial Replicons

  • Bin-Bin Xie,
  • Jin-Cheng Rong,
  • Bai-Lu Tang,
  • Sishuo Wang,
  • Guiming Liu,
  • Qi-Long Qin,
  • Xi-Ying Zhang,
  • Weipeng Zhang,
  • Qunxin She,
  • Yin Chen,
  • Fuchuan Li,
  • Shengying Li,
  • Xiu-Lan Chen,
  • Haiwei Luo,
  • Yu-Zhong Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02745-20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1

Abstract

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Chromosome replication is an essential process for cell division. The mode of chromosome replication has important impacts on the structure of the chromosome and replication speed.