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Journal of Bacteriology, March 1999, p. 1684-1688, Vol. 181, No. 5
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Genomic Complexity among Strains of the Facultative Photoheterotrophic Bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Kirsten Siedenburg Nereng and Samuel Kaplan*

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030

Received 25 September 1998/Accepted 21 December 1998

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis following the use of rare cutting restriction endonucleases together with Southern hybridization, using markers distributed on chromosomes I and II of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1, has been used to examine approximately 25 strains of R. sphaeroides in an effort to assess the occurrence of genome complexity in these strains. The results suggest that genome complexity is widespread and is accompanied by substantial genomic heterogeneity.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School, 6431 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030. Phone: (713) 500-5502. Fax: (713) 500-5499. E-mail: skaplan{at}utmmg.med.uth.tmc.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, March 1999, p. 1684-1688, Vol. 181, No. 5
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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