Polymorphism at four-fold degenerate site, but not at the intergenic regions, explains nucleotide compositional strand asymmetry in bacteria
Piyali Sen, Ruksana Aziz, Soumita Das, Nima Dondu Namsa, Ramesh Chandra Deka, Edward J. Feil, Suvendra Kumar Ray, Siddhartha Sankar Satapathy
The paper examines polymorphism in intergenic regions and four-fold degenerate sites in bacterial genomes to explain nucleotide compositional strand asymmetry, finding that FFS polymorphisms, not IRs, explain the asymmetry.
bioRxiv · Oct 7, 2021 · PreprintMolecular Biology