Differences in evolutionary pressure acting within highly conserved ortholog groups

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Przytycka, Teresa M ^a   Jothi, Raja ^a,b   Aravind, L ^a   Lipman, David J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; ENTROPY; FIRMICUTES; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

FIRMICUTES; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

ARCHAEA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 48349116867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-208     Document Type: Article

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