Intra-strand biases in bacteriophage T4 genome

Gene

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-64

  Kano Sueoka, Tamiko ^a   Lobry, Jean R ^b   Sueoka, Noboru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Asymmetric mutation pressure; Bias from Parity Rule 2; Sense versus anti sense strand; Transcription and translation associated biases

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOPHAGE T4; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

T4 BACTERIOPHAGE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032849705     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00296-6     Document Type: Article

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