Evaluation of the current models for the evolution of bacterial DNA uptake signal sequences

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 157-166

  Chu, Dominique ^a   Rowe, Jonathan ^b   Lee, Hoong Chien ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Natural competence; Uptake signal sequence

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BACTERIUM; DNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE CONVERSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 28444480266     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.05.024     Document Type: Article

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