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Archaea 2, 137–143 © 2007 Heron Publishing—Victoria, Canada Gene decay in archaea 1,2 1 1 M. W. J. VAN PASSEL, C. S. SMILLIE and H. OCHMAN 1 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona, 1007 East Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA 2 Corresponding author (mvpassel@) Received November 17, 2006; accepted February 19, 2007; published online March 7, 2007 Summary The gene-dense chromosomes of archaea and g