Ectopic gene conversions in bacterial genomes

Genome

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 975-984

  Hilliker, Arthur ^a   Morris, Robert T ^a   Drouin, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archaebacteria; Comparative genomics; Ectopic; Firmicutes; Gene conversion; Genomes; Proteobacteria; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 49249110510     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/G07-076     Document Type: Article

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