Correlations between genomic GC levels and optimal growth temperatures in prokaryotes

FEBS Letters

Volumn 573, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 73-77

  Musto, Héctor ^a,b   Naya, Hugo ^a   Zavala, Alejandro ^a,b   Romero, Héctor ^a,c   Alvarez Valín, Fernando ^a,b   Bernardi, Giorgio ^b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias   (Uruguay)

^b STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

DNA thermodynamic stability; GC, guanine plus cytosine; GC3, the GC levels of third codon positions; Genome evolution; Isochores; Topt, optimal growth temperature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TEMPERATURE;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 4344666232     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.07.056     Document Type: Article

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