Genomic conflict settled in favour of the species rather than the gene at extreme GC percentage values

Applied Bioinformatics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 219-228

  Lee, Shang Jung ^a   Mortimer, James R ^b   Forsdyke, Donald R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MERCK FROSST CENTRE FOR THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CODON; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 22944478667     PISSN: 11755636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00822942-200403040-00003     Document Type: Article

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