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SUBMITTER: Benders GA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2860123 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nucleic acids research 20100307 8
Most microbes have not been cultured, and many of those that are cultivatable are difficult, dangerous or expensive to propagate or are genetically intractable. Routine cloning of large genome fractions or whole genomes from these organisms would significantly enhance their discovery and genetic and functional characterization. Here we report the cloning of whole bacterial genomes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as single-DNA molecules. We cloned the genomes of Mycoplasma genitalium (0.6 M ...[more]