Evolutionary and functional genomics of the Archaea

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 586-594

  Makarova, Kira S ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; CYSTEINE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ARCHAEA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; NANOARCHAEOTA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; NANOARCHAEUM; NANOARCHAEUM EQUITANS;

EID: 25144488272     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2005.08.003     Document Type: Review

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