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The figure caption is misleading. By "smallest genome" they mean fewest base pairs (531,000 base pairs, compared to 580,000 in Mycoplasma genitalium).
by greeneggs 11y ago
The figure caption is misleading. By "smallest genome" they mean fewest base pairs (531,000 base pairs, compared to 580,000 in Mycoplasma genitalium).
- pak 11y agoThat's not what I'm getting at. If M. genitalium really has only 470 genes by whatever counting scheme we've chosen, then the claim that "each cell of JCVI-syn3.0 contains just 473 genes, fewer than any other independent organism" is simply mistaken.
- marxidad 11y agoIt's possible that a different counting scheme was chosen for either case.