Happy to share a new publication on a collaboration with Xindan Wang and @fuquaclay.bsky.social labs. We identified and characterized naturally occurring Agrobacterium strains with fused chromosomes. Did mobile genetic elements play a role in fusion? journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Most bacterial genomes are monopartite with a single, circular chromosome. However,
some species, like Agrobacterium tumefaciens, carry multiple chromosomes. Emergence of multipartite genomes is often...
