Genomic GC content drifts downward in most bacterial genomes

Bert Ely

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0244163

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Genomic GC content drifts downward in most bacterial genomes

Bert Ely

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ely@sc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2768-2940

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Genomic GC content drifts downward in most bacterial genomes

Bert Ely

Published: May 26, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244163

About the Authors

Bert Ely

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ely@sc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2768-2940

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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