Deletional bias and the evolution of bacterial genomes

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 589-596

  Mira, Alex ^a   Ochman, Howard ^a   Moran, Nancy A ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DEGRADATION; DNA CONTENT; EUBACTERIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR SIZE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOSIS; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PSEUDOGENES; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0035479142     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(01)02447-7     Document Type: Review

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