Creativity and disorder: the ambiguous roles of repeats in genome evolution

Eduardo Rocha
Atelier de BioInformatique
Université de Paris VI
12, rue Cuvier
75005 - Paris
FRANCE
E-Mail: erocha@closun.snv.jussieu.fr

Unité Génétique des Génomes Bactériens, URA2171
Institut Pasteur
25, rue du Dr. Roux
75724 - Paris cedex 15
FRANCE

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