Comparative sequence analyses reveal frequent occurrence of short segments containing an abnormally high number of non-random base variations in bacterial rRNA genes

Microbiology

Volumn 146, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2845-2854

  Wang, Y ^a   Zhang, Z ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Complexity hypothesis; Evolution; Lateral gene transfer; Mosaic gene; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BASE MISPAIRING; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LANGAT VIRUS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0033709697     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-146-11-2845     Document Type: Article

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