How to define where starts and ends a Symbiotic Island (SI) in Bradyrhizobia genome?

Arthur Fernandes Siqueira @Arthur_Siqueira

05 May 2012 0 787 Report

I really have doubts which parameters to use in addition to symbiotic genes (nif, fix, nod...)

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