Conserved clusters of functionally related genes in two bacterial genomes

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 66-73

  Tamames, Javier ^a   Casari, Georg ^b   Ouzounis, Christos ^c   Valencia, Alfonso ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b Biol Struct and BioComputing Prog   (Germany)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial evolution; Functional classification; Gene clusters; Genome analysis; Genome organization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031024670     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006122     Document Type: Article

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