Separate base usages of genes located on the leading and lagging strands in Chlamydia muridarum revealed by the Z curve method

BMC Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Guo, Feng Biao ^a   Yu, Xiu Juan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHROMOSOME; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; BASE PAIRING; CODON; GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

BASE PAIRING; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; CODON; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 36348942876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-366     Document Type: Article

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