Examining influence of DNA methylation and deamination on genomic evolution: Spotlight Thermus thermophilus
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1 Department of Biology, New York School of Career and Applied Studies, Touro College, 27-33 W 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010 2 Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Michael F. Price Center, 1301 Morris Park Avenue, Room 519, Bronx, NY 10461 3 Department of Genetics (Computational Genetics), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Michael F. Price Center, 1301 Morris Park Avenue, Room 322, Bronx, NY 10461 *Corresponding author
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