Detecting key structural features within highly recombined genes

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 0137-0150

  Wertz, John E ^a,c   McGregor, Karen F ^b   Bessen, Debra E ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MINERS; PHYLOGENETIC; SIGNAL ENCODING;

DIVERSIFYING SELECTIONS; ENCODINGS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INVERTED REPEAT; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; PATHOGENICS; PHYLOGENETICS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PALINDROMIC DNA; PBP 2X PROTEIN, STREPTOCOCCUS; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CODON USAGE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PBP2X GENE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOF GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ALGORITHM; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33846472969     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030014     Document Type: Article

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