Quantitative analysis of mutation and selection pressures on base composition skews in bacterial chromosomes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Chen, Chi ^a   Chen, Carton W ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIODIVERSITY; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLADISTICS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FIRMICUTES; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEOBACTERIA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETICS; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 35348993681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-286     Document Type: Article

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