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Proposed mechanism for generating linear diversity

Posted by chaconas on 09 Apr 2012 at 18:21 GMT

The reader who is curious about how many of the DNA rearrangements in the linear Borrelia replicons might have been generated is referred to two citations that are absent from this paper:
1) Kobryn, K. and Chaconas, G. (2005) Fusion of hairpin telomeres by the B. burgdorferi telomere resolvase ResT: Implications for shaping a genome in flux. Molecular Cell 17, 783-791.
2) Chaconas, G. and Kobryn, K. (2010) Structure, function and evolution of linear replicons in Borrelia. Annual Review of Microbiology 64:185-202.

George Chaconas and Kerri Kobryn

No competing interests declared.