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Non-equivalent genomes in polyploid prokaryotes

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Many bacteria and archaea are polyploid. Here, the means by which some of these prokaryotes carry genomes that are not always equivalent in sequence and/or function are described, and the importance of such non-equivalent genomes is discussed.

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Fig. 1: Schematic overview of non-equivalent genomes in Azobacter ocaliferum and in Epulopiscium.

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I thank the German Research Council (DFG) for funding the ploidy research of my group through projects So264/16 and So264/24.

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Soppa, J. Non-equivalent genomes in polyploid prokaryotes. Nat Microbiol 7, 186–188 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-01034-3

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