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Nature 443, 569-573 (27 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/nature05160;

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Reassembly of shattered chromosomes in Deinococcus radiodurans

Dehydration or desiccation is one of the most frequent and severe challenges to living cells. The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans is the best known extremophile among the few organisms that can survive extremely high exposures to desiccation and ionizing radiation, which shatter its genome into hundreds of short DNA fragments.

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