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Indiana University
Caption: This circle represents the Escherichia coli chromosome with 1,931 mutations. Blue lines represent base-pair substitutions and green lines represent the gain or loss of between one and four nucleotides.
Credit: Andrew J. Hanson, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
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