Happy New Year 2022!
Our new research article by Mori & Kanaly has just been published in Microbiology Spectrum.
We discovered a unique genomic structure in an azaarene-degrading soil bacterium Cupriavidus necator KK10, of which chromosome and chromid (secondary chromosome) were naturally fused across the rRNA operons and resulted in the creation of a massive single chromosome. This phenomenon has not been previously reported for the family Burkholderiaceae.
Mori, J. F. and Kanaly, R. A. (2022) Natural chromosome-chromid fusion across rRNA operons in a Burkholderiaceae bacterium. Microbiology Spectrum 10, e02225-21
