Ecophysiological significance of scale-dependent patterns in prokaryotic genomes unveiled by a combination of statistic and genometric analyses

Genomics

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 538-543

  Garcia, Juan A L ^a   Bartumeus, Frederic ^a   Roche, David ^b   Giraldo, Jesús ^b   Stanley, H Eugene ^c   Casamayor, Emilio O ^a  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genome analyses; Detrended fluctuation analysis; DNA walk; Genometrics; Long range correlation; Microbial biodiversity, DNA sequence analysis; Microbial ecology; Prokaryote genome

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; DNA STRUCTURE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; HYPERTHERMOPHILE; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PH; PHOTOAUTOTROPH; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SALINITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CHROMOSOMES, ARCHAEAL; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOLOGY; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 44649173628     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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