Inferring the pattern of spontaneous mutation from the pattern of substitution in unitary pseudogenes of Mycobacterium leprae and a comparison of mutation patterns among distantly related organisms

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 795-803

  Mitchell, Amir ^a   Graur, Dan ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Chirochores; Drosophila; Eucarya; Mycobacterium leprae; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Patterns of mutation; Unitary pseudogenes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MUTATION; DATA BASE; DROSOPHILA; GENOME ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PSEUDOGENE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 28244474553     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-0235-0     Document Type: Article

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