Gene Organization: Selection, Selfishness, and Serendipity

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2003, Pages 419-440

  Lawrence, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Inversions; Nematodes; Operons; Selfish gene; trans splicing

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BETA GLOBIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NEMATODA; OPERON; SELECTION (GENETICS);

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA; NEMATODA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0242440314     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.090816     Document Type: Review

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