Genome evolutiongene fusion versus gene fission

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-11

  Snel, Berend ^a   Bork, Peer ^a,b   Huynen, Martijn ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (GLUTAMINE HYDROLYSING); CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE ASPARTATECARBAMOYL TRANSFERASE COMPLEX; CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE-ASPARTATECARBAMOYL TRANSFERASE COMPLEX; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUSION; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; TECHNIQUE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS;

ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIA; CARBAMOYL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (GLUTAMINE-HYDROLYZING); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES;

EID: 0033621536     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(99)01924-1     Document Type: Article

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