Abstract
Bacterial genome sizes, determined by deoxyribonucleic acid reassociation kinetics, vary over a 10-fold range. The smallest studied, Chlamydia trachomatis, had a genome of 6 × 105 nucleotide pairs compared to 4.5 × 106 for Escherichia coli.
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