Did the loss of sigma factors initiate pseudogene accumulation in M. leprae?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 59-61

  Babu, M Madan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOSS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SHORT SURVEY;

DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PSEUDOGENES; SIGMA FACTOR;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037323190     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(02)00031-8     Document Type: Short Survey

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