Application of tetranucleotide frequencies for the assignment of genomic fragments

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 938-947

  Teeling, Hanno ^a   Meyerdierks, Anke ^a   Bauer, Margarete ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^a   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NUCLEOTIDES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 4344670204     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00624.x     Document Type: Article

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