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This in turn led to our discovery that large genome inversions in bacteria and archaea are most common when they are symmetric around the origin of replication.
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This may be my favorite paper from my entire career and I owe it all to Chlamydia.
Plus, there are all sorts of jokes one can make with the Giant Microbe Chlamydias like
andIronic I know but putting Chlamydia near my special place makes it awkward to go #ucdmicroboome pic.twitter.com/DR8eEJdDOA— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) October 27, 2017
It reminds me of when we all kept giving each other chlamydia with @phylogenomics 's 'Gut Check' game at #scifoo :D who doesn't love a free set of crabs lol! https://t.co/ltuxAbKFFC— Carin Anne Bondar (@carinbondar) February 14, 2018