Base composition bias might result from competition for metabolic resources

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 291-294

  Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a   Danchin, Antoine ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b HKU PASTEUR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; THYMINE;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ENERGY COST; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; HOST; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMBIONT;

AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0036606915     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(02)02690-2     Document Type: Review

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