Publication Date:
1979-06-08
Description:
The organism Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, an archaebacterium, is envolutionarily very distant from both traditional prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Its genome (DNA) has physical characteristics typical of most prokaryotes except that it is quite small (about 10(9) daltons, less than half the size of the genome of Escherichia coli) and contains a significant amount (6 percent) DNA which renatures extremely rapidly.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mitchell, R M -- Loeblich, L A -- Klotz, L C -- Loeblich, A R 3rd -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1979 Jun 8;204(4397):1082-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/377486" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Base Sequence
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Biological Evolution
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DNA, Bacterial/*genetics
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Escherichia coli/genetics
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Euryarchaeota/classification/*genetics
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Nucleic Acid Renaturation
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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