In some organisms, like humans, chromosomes are linear, but in other organisms, like bacteria, chromosomes ... cell's chromosomes are stored inside a structure called the nucleus.

How do bacteria, lacking a nucleus ... particularly with regard to chromosomal structure and organization. Supercoiling explains how chromosomes fit into a small corner of the cell, but how ...

Bioinformaticians from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the university in Linköping (Sweden) have established ...

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

In a paper published in Science, researchers show that transposons can target and insert themselves at the ends of linear chromosomes, called telomeres, within their bacterial host. In ...