Selection for chromosome architecture in bacteria

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 615-629

  Hendrickson, Heather ^a   Lawrence, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA strand bias; FtsK; Genome evolution; Mutational bias; Natural selection; Replication terminus

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHITECTURE IMPARTING SEQUENCES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDES; CHLAMYDIA; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNAA GENE; FIRMICUTES; GENE MUTATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; SPIROCHETE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MUTATION; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SELECTION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33745661032     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0192-2     Document Type: Article

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