Computing prokaryotic gene ubiquity: Rescuing the core from extinction

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2469-2477

  Charlebois, Robert L ^a   Doolittle, W Ford ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME SIZE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 10944248427     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.3024704     Document Type: Article

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