Separating the effects of mutation and selection in producing DNA skew in bacterial chromosomes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Morton, Richard A ^a   Morton, Brian R ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE; THYMINE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA STRAND; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; METABOLISM; MUTATION; RNA GENE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 36849084992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-369     Document Type: Article

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