Composition strand asymmetries in prokaryotic genomes: Mutational bias and biased gene orientation

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Serie III

Volumn 324, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 201-208

  Lopez, Philippe ^a   Philippe, Hervé ^a  

^a Université René Descartes   (France)

Author keywords

GC skew; Mutational bias; Prokaryotic genomes; Strand composition asymmetry; Transcription sense

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PROKARYOTE;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0035100448     PISSN: 07644469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0764-4469(00)01298-1     Document Type: Article

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