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Science 8 June 1979:
Vol. 204. no. 4397, pp. 1082 - 1084
DOI: 10.1126/science.377486
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Science, Vol 204, Issue 4397, 1082-1084
Copyright © 1979 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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DNA organization of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum

RM Mitchell, LA Loeblich, LC Klotz, and AR Loeblich 3rd

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.


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