Identification of genomic islands in the genome of Bacillus cereus by comparative analysis with Bacillus anthracis

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2004, Pages 19-23

  Zhang, Ren ^a   Zhang, Chun Ting ^b  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF CANCER PREVENTION AND THERAPY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cumulative GC profile; Genomic island

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; IRON; PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; VALINE TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMIC ISLAND; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BASE COMPOSITION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 1842430893     PISSN: 15312267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00170.2003     Document Type: Article

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