The balance of driving forces during genome evolution in prokaryotes

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1589-1594

  Kunin, Victor ^a   Ouzounis, Christos A ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ALGORITHM; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOSS; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME SIZE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FAMILY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0038486918     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1092603     Document Type: Article

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