Abstract
Replication order to map position discrepancies have been documented in B. subtilis. The discrepancies were found to occur whenever the genome of B. subtilis was replicated under a variety of physiological conditions and in both 168 and W23 strains. The earliest replicating marker involved in these discrepancies was thr versus purB and aroA versus recA. A detailed linkage analysis of the ura to argA region was consistent with its being a continuous linkage group. This led to the conclusion that an origin for new starts at replication exists between recA and aroA.
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