The Bacillus subtilis sin operon: An evolvable network motif

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1187-1202

  Voigt, Christopher A ^b,c   Wolf, Denise M ^a   Arkin, Adam P ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; OPERON; OSCILLATOR; PHYLOGENY; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PULSE GENERATOR; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPOROGENESIS; STEADY STATE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; OPERON;

EID: 17444387728     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.031955     Document Type: Article

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