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Bacteria can maintain rRNA operons solely on plasmids for hundreds of millions of years
Anda, M*., Yamanouchi, S., Cosentino, S., Sakamoto, M., Ohkuma, M., Takashima, M., Toyoda, A., and Iwasaki, W*.
Nature Communications 14, 7232 (2023)
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42681-w
Bacterial clade with the ribosomal RNA operon on a small plasmid rather than the chromosome
Anda, M#., Ohtsubo, Y#., Okubo, T., Sugawara, M., Nagata, Y., Tsuda, M., Minamisawa, K*., and Mitsui, H*.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112, 14343–14347 (2015)
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1514326112