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Recombinational Rearrangements in Bacterial Genome and Bacterial Adaptation to the Environment

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The rearrangement of bacterial chromosomes induced by intragenomic recombination is considered. The role of stochastic and programmed genome rearrangements in bacterial adaptation to the environment and in cell differentiation is discussed.

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Prozorov, A.A. Recombinational Rearrangements in Bacterial Genome and Bacterial Adaptation to the Environment. Microbiology 70, 501–512 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012301117863

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