Limitations of compositional approach to identifying horizontally transferred genes

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 244-250

  Wang, Bin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b Division of Mathematics   (China)

Author keywords

Compositional characteristics; Escherichia coli; G+C content; Horizontal transfer; Pattern of codon usage; Sequence amelioration; Substitution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA;

EID: 0034872741     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002390010214     Document Type: Article

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