Genome-wide analysis of restriction-modification system in unicellular and filamentous cyanobacteria

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 181-190

  Zhao, Fangqing ^a   Zhang, Xiaowen ^a   Liang, Chengwei ^a   Wu, Jinyu ^b   Bao, Qiyu ^b   Qin, Song ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Comparative genomics; Horizontal gene transfer; Molecular evolution; Spirulina platensis

Indexed keywords

METHYLTRANSFERASE; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIRULINA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPIRULINA;

CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; SPIRULINA; SPIRULINA PLATENSIS;

EID: 33645787020     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00255.2005     Document Type: Article

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