The genome of Rickettsia prowazekii and
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Miklós Müller; William Martin
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The sequence of an ␣-proteobacterial genome, that of Rickettsia prowazekii, is a substantial advance in microbial and evolutionary biology. The genome of this obligately aerobic intracellular parasite is small and is apparently still undergoing reduction, reflecting gene losses attributable to its