General Agricultural and Biological Sciences


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Comparative genomics of Synechococcus and proposal of the new genus Parasynechococcus

Citation
Coutinho et al. (2016). PeerJ 4
Names
Parasynechococcus
Abstract
Synechococcusis among the most important contributors to global primary productivity. The genomes of several strains of this taxon have been previously sequenced in an effort to understand the physiology and ecology of these highly diverse microorganisms. Here we present a comparative study ofSynechococcusgenomes. For that end, we developed GenTaxo, a program written in Perl to perform genomic taxonomy based on average nucleotide identity, average amino acid identity and dinucleotide signatures,