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Science 19 October 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5849, pp. 405 - 407
DOI: 10.1126/science.1150280
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Perspectives

GENETICS:
Why Genomes in Pieces?

Laura F. Landweber

Some microorganisms are evolutionary puzzles in that their genomes contain encrypted genes that are descrambled into gene products.

The author is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. E-mail: lfl{at}princeton.edu

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