Operon formation is driven by co-regulation and not by horizontal gene transfer

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 809-819

  Price, Morgan N ^a   Huang, Katherine H ^a   Arkin, Adam P ^a,b   Alm, Eric J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 22444441190     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.3368805     Document Type: Article

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