How big can a gene be? Ten years ago in the early days of genome sequencing, researchers scoured the genomes of 580 bacterial and archaeal species for large genes. They found that 0.2% of all genes id...
This post is part of the Meet a Microbe series on the blog. Check it out to meet other microbes! Meet Deinococcus radiodurans, one of the world’s toughest bacterium. It’s an extremophile and one of th...
