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Normand P., Lapierre P., Tisa L., Lavire C., Gogarten J. P., Alloisio N., Cournoyer B., Marechal J., Pujic P., Huang Y., Mastronunzio J., Bickhard D., Bassi C., Rawnsley T., Niemann J., Francino M. P., Lapidus A., Martinez M., Goltsman E., Choisne N., Schenowitz C., Couloux A., Demange, N., Medigue C., Cruveiller S., Labarre L., Rouy Z., Vallenet D., Mullin B., Kopp O., Wang Y., Tomkins J., Berry A., Valverde C., Wall L., Sellstedt A., Tavares F., Daubin V. and Benson D. R. (2007) Genome characteristics of facultatively symbiotic Frankia sp. strains reflect host range and host plant biogeography. Genome Research 17, 7-15.

Huerta A. M., Francino M. P., Morett E. and Collado-Vides J. (2006) Natural selection for high density of s70 promoter-like signals in the regulatory regions of large bacterial genomes. PLoS Genet 2(11):e185. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0020185

Huerta A. M., Collado-Vides J. and Francino M. P. (2006). Positional conservation of clusters of overlapping promoter-like sequences in enterobacterial genomes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23, 997-1010.

Francino, M. P. (2005) An adaptive radiation model for the origin of new gene functions. Nature Genetics. 37, 573-578.

Francino, M. P., Santos, S. R. and Ochman, H. (2003) Phylogenetic relationships of bacteria with special reference to enteric species. In The Prokaryotes: An Evolving Electronic Resource for the Microbiological Community, 3rd edition, release 3.13, M. Dworkin (Editor-in-Chief) Springer-Verlag, New York.

Francino, M. P. and Ochman, H. (2001) Deamination as the basis of strand-asymmetric evolution in transcribed Escherichia coli sequences. Mol. Biol. Evol. 18, 1147-1150.

Francino, M. P. and Ochman, H. (2000) Strand symmetry around the ß-globin origin of replication in primates. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17, 416-422.

Francino, M. P. and Ochman, H. (1999) Isochores result from mutation not selection. Nature 400, 30-31.

Francino, M. P. and Ochman, H. (1999) A comparative genomics approach to DNA asymmetry. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 870, 428-431.

Francino, M. P. and Ochman, H. (1997) Strand asymmetries in DNA evolution. Trends Genet. 13, 240-245.

Francino, M. P., Chao L., Riley, M. A. and Ochman, H. (1996) Asymmetries generated by transcription-coupled repair in enterobacterial genes. Science 272, 107-109.