High correlation between the turnover of nucleotides under mutational pressure and the DNA composition

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Kowalczuk, Maria ^a   Mackiewicz, Pawel ^a   Mackiewicz, Dorota ^a   Nowicka, Aleksandra ^a   Dudkiewicz, Malgorzata ^a   Dudek, Miroslaw R ^b   Cebrat, Stanislaw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIELONA GÓRA   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 3042648616     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-1-13     Document Type: Article

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