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==Description and significance==
==Description and significance==


B. burgdorferi is a motile, two-membrane, spiral-shaped bacteria which found mostly in North America and Europe. It's named after Willy Burgdorfer, who in 1982 isolated and determined the bacteria to be the causative agent of Lyme disease.
B. burgdorferi is a motile, two-membrane, spiral-shaped bacteria which is found mostly in North America and Europe. It's named after Willy Burgdorfer, who in 1982 isolated and determined the bacteria to be the causative agent of Lyme disease.


==Genome structure==
==Genome structure==

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Borrelia burgdorferi
Scientific classification

Description and significance

B. burgdorferi is a motile, two-membrane, spiral-shaped bacteria which is found mostly in North America and Europe. It's named after Willy Burgdorfer, who in 1982 isolated and determined the bacteria to be the causative agent of Lyme disease.

Genome structure

DNA Molecule Summary
Number Percent
Total Number of all DNA molecules: 22 100.00%
Total Size of all DNA molecules: 1521208 bp 100.00%
Number of Primary Annotation coding bases: 1349393 bp 88.70%
Number of G+C bases: 428672 bp 28.17%
Number Percent
Primary Annotation Summary
Total genes: 1813 100.00%
Protein coding genes: 1773 97.79%
Genes assigned a role category: 915 51.60%
Genes not assigned a role category: 111 6.26%
Conserved hypothetical genes: 665 37.50%
Hypothetical genes: 82 4.62%
tRNA genes: 33 1.82%
rRNA genes: 7 0.38%


Cell structure and metabolism

Ecology

Pathology

Application to Biotechnology

Current Research

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