Lineage-specific partitions in archaeal transcription

Archaea

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 117-125

  Coulson, Richard M R ^a   Touboul, Nathalie ^b   Ouzounis, Christos A ^c  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b ALCIMED   (France)

^c INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Genome profiling; Protein families; Sequence clustering; Transcription associated proteins

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA;

EID: 34250899110     PISSN: 14723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2006/629868     Document Type: Article

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