Asymmetric directional mutation pressures in bacteria

Genome Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Lobry, Jean R ^a   Sueoka, Noboru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Codon Position; Intergenic Region; Intergenic Space; Sense Strand

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEINOCOCCUS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNTRANSLATED REGION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AT RICH SEQUENCE; BASE COMPOSITION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CODON; DEINOCOCCUS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GC RICH SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SELECTION (GENETICS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0037179524     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-10-research0058     Document Type: Article

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