Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
The mysterious orphans of Mycoplasmataceae
Tatiana Tatarinova, Inna Lysnyansky, Yuri Nikolsky, Alexander Bolshoy
The paper confirms that proteins with homologs are longer than orphans in prokaryotic genomes, but finds that Mycoplasmataceae genomes show the opposite pattern.
DOI 10.1186/s13062-015-0104-3