The nature and dynamics of bacterial genomes

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5768, 2006, Pages 1730-1733

  Ochman, Howard ^a   Davalos, Liliana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL GENOMES; MUTATIONAL PROCESS; POPULATION-LEVEL PROCESSES;

GENES;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

GENOME;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PSEUDOGENES; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33645221999     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1119966     Document Type: Review

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