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Genes in microorganisms are known to form operons, two-component systems, paralogous gene clusters, and other functionally related genomic clusters.
In fact, the organization of genes into operons, complex regulons [ 11 ] , or pathogenicity islands [ 12 ] suggests that related functions usually share physical proximity.
Typically, bacteria possess multiple rRNA operons, each containing all three genes; the Buchnera ancestor is inferred to have possessed at least five operons and modern E. coli has seven.
Specifically, it has been noticed previously that T. maritima shares a considerable number of genes and operons with Gram-positive bacteria, to the exclusion of other bacteria [ 21 ] ; this seems to be compatible with the position of T. maritima with the Gram-positive cluster.
By comparing the gene neighborhoods of the SSAPs, we show that the predicted operons that include the SSAP genes evolve according to the "LEGO" principle.