Codon usage and nucleotide composition in Coxiella burnetii

Gene

Volumn 198, Issue 2 JAN, 1997, Pages 171-180

  Lin, Zhicheng ^a,b   Yang, Shaohui ^b   Mallavia, Louis P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NIDA Addiction Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome; G + C content; Nucleotide co occurrence; Plasmid; Q fever; Rickettsia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHROMOSOME; CODON; CODON USAGE; COXIELLA BURNETII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; STOP CODON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA BURNETII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 0030698749     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00312-0     Document Type: Article

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