The evolution of genetic regulatory systems in bacteria

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 169-178

  McAdams, Harley H ^a   Srinivasan, Balaji ^a   Arkin, Adam P ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIOSPHERE; CELL CYCLE; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 1542380403     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1292     Document Type: Review

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