Essential genes are more evolutionarily conserved than are nonessential genes in bacteria

Genome Research

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 962-968

  King Jordan, I ^a   Rogozin, Igor B ^a   Wolf, Yuri I ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC SELECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TIME;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0036078078     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.87702. Article published online before print in May 2002     Document Type: Article

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