Genome-wide patterns of necleoticle substitution reveal stringent functional constraints on the protein sequences of thermophiles

Genetics

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1507-1512

  Friedman, Robert ^a   Drake, John W ^b   Hughes, Austin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEAT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 3843150551     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.026344     Document Type: Article

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