Birth and death of orphan genes in Rickettsia

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1575-1587

  Amiri, Haleh ^a   Davids, Wagied ^a   Andersson, Siv G E ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Intergenic DNA; Molecular evolution; Phylogeny; Rickettsia

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RICKETTSIA CONORII; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PSEUDOGENES; RICKETTSIA CONORII; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0142222533     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg175     Document Type: Article

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