Genomes and evolution

Current Issues in Molecular Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 37-42

  Danchin, Antoine ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b HKU PASTEUR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; TYROSINE;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOTOPE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CODON USAGE; DNA DATA BANK OF JAPAN; EMBL NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE DATABASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENBANK; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEQUENCE DATABASE; STREPTOMYCES;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 0037638733     PISSN: 14673037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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