Genes under positive selection in Escherichia coli

Genome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1336-1343

  Petersen, Lise ^a   Bollback, Jonathan P ^a   Dimmic, Matt ^b   Hubisz, Melissa ^c   Nielsen, Rasmus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Divergence Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; BETA BARREL PORIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; COLICIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; MENAQUINONE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN; TRANSPOSASE; UBIQUINONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC SELECTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 34548440667     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6254707     Document Type: Article

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