Over-representation of repeats in stress response genes: A strategy to increase versatility under stressful conditions?

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1886-1894

  Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a,b   Matic, Ivan ^c   Taddei, François ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL CLONE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRESS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036567071     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/30.9.1886     Document Type: Article

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