Journal Article10.1016/J.GDE.2005.09.006
The microbial pan-genome
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TL;DR: A decade after the beginning of the genomic era, the question of how genomics can describe a bacterial species has not been fully addressed and the pan-genome, which is composed of a "core genome" containing genes present in all strains, and a "dispensable genome", might be orders of magnitude larger than any single genome.
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About: This article is published in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. The article was published on 01 Dec 2005. The article focuses on the topics: Minimal genome & Bacterial genome size.
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