Are genes distributed randomly along the bacterial chromosome, as if scattered from a salt shaker? This opinion, which is held by a majority of researchers, has now been disputed by a team of ...

Accordingly, their position influences how their activity changes with the growth rate. Are genes distributed randomly along the bacterial chromosome, as if scattered from a salt shaker? This opinion, ...

How do bacteria, lacking a nucleus ... Supercoiling explains how chromosomes fit into a small corner of the cell, but how do the proteins involved in replication and transcription access the ...

In a paper published in Science, researchers show that transposons can target and insert themselves at the ends of linear ...