Functional and evolutionary roles of long repeats in prokaryotes

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 9-10, 1999, Pages 725-733

  Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a,b   Danchin, Antoine ^b   Viari, Alain ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Gene transfer; Natural transformation

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; EVOLUTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033397546     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(99)00120-5     Document Type: Article

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