Describing ancient horizontal gene transfers at the nucleotide and gene levels by comparative pathogenicity island genometrics

Bioinformatics

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1072-1079

  Collyn, F ^a,b   Guy, L ^b   Marceau, M ^a   Simonet, M ^a   Roten, Claude Alain H ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOINFORMATICS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA; YERSINIA;

EID: 33646149163     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti793     Document Type: Article

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