The evolution of genomic base composition in bacteria

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1783-1792

  Haywood Farmer, Eric ^a   Otto, Sarah P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ancestor states; Bacteria; Base composition; Brownian motion; GC content; Maximum likelihood; Sequence evolution

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0042287719     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00586.x     Document Type: Article

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