passages.id: split_6_test_3068_passage
passages.type: progene_text
passages.text: We have found that region III does not consist of a contiguous set of flagellar genes , as was thought , but that in E. coli there is almost 7 kb of DNA between the filament cap gene , fliD , and the next known flagellar gene , fliE ; a similar situation occurs in S. typhimurium .