Annals of Botany, Vol. 117, No. 7 (June 2016), pp. 1209-1220 (12 pages) Background and Aims Several unrelated lineages such as plastids, viruses and plasmids, have converged on quadripartite genomes ...

In a paper published on aBIOTECH, the authors constructed a comprehensive atlas of active autonomous terminal inverted repeat ...

It has been suggested that inverted repeat (palindrome) sequences, which are widespread in eukaryotic genomes, exist in two alternate configurations, a linear form and a cruciform. To investigate the ...

Genes may now be deleted without creating a scar in certain strains of Escherichia coli and other microorganisms, thanks to new research. The technique makes it easier to string together several ...