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Evolutionary trajectories of secondary replicons in multipartite genomes
Natalia O. Dranenko, Aleksandra D. Rodina, Yaroslav V. Demenchuk…·Olga Bochkareva
The paper analyzes the evolution of secondary replicons in bacterial genomes, identifying two patterns: chromids with size correlated to the chromosome and megaplasmids with stable size.