Comparative DNA analysis across diverse genomes

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue , 1998, Pages 185-225

  Karlin, Samuel ^a   Campbell, Allan M ^a   Mrázek, Jan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon biases; Compositional biases; Frequent oligonucleotides (motifs); Genome signature; Strand compositional asymmetry

Indexed keywords

CODON; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRAND; EUKARYOTE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032426005     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.32.1.185     Document Type: Review

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