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Gum disease genome on line

Tudor Toma

Genome Biology 2001, 2:spotlight-20010614-02 doi:10.1186/gb-spotlight-20010614-02

Published: 14 June 2001

The Porphyromonas gingivalis genome of 2.3 million base pairs is the first of the bacteroides group of Gram-negative anaerobes to be sequenced.