Evolution of gene order conservation in prokaryotes

Genome Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2001, Pages

  Tamames, Javier ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^b ALMA Bioinformatica   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gene Order; Gene Order Conservation; Lateral Gene Transfer; Molecular Phylogeny; Phylogenetic Distance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE ORDER; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0010414313     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2001-2-6-research0020     Document Type: Article

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