Replication-transcription collisions impose DNA strand-specific constraints on gene length in bacteria

• Anjali Variyar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anjali Variyar, Samhitha Patil

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9767-6941

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• Samhitha Patil ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anjali Variyar, Samhitha Patil

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4467-606X

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• Jebin Babu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1866-7041

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• Akanksha Bhat,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5405-3396

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• T. Sabari Sankar

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sabari@iisertvm.ac.in

  Affiliations School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, Center for High-Performance Computing, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0692-8769

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