Evolutionary conservation of bacterial operons: Does transcriptional connectivity matter?

Genetica

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-166

  Hazkani Covo, Einat ^a   Graur, Dan ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial operons; Evolutionary rates; Transcriptional connectivity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; OPERON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 21744442742     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-005-0950-5     Document Type: Review

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