Gene location and bacterial sequence divergence

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1350-1358

  Mira, Alex ^a,c   Ochman, Howard ^a,b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Genome evolution; Replication origin; Substitution rates

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHLAMYDIA; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OPERON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIALES; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RICKETTSIALES; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIA; CODON; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; OPERON; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0036667696     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004196     Document Type: Article

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