Very small mobile repeated elements in cyanobacterial genomes

Genome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1484-1499

  Elhai, Jeff ^a   Kato, Michiko ^a,c   Cousins, Sarah ^a,d   Lindblad, Peter ^b,e   Costa, José Luis ^b,f  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NESTED GENES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY;

CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; NOSTOC SP.;

EID: 50649084154     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.074336.107     Document Type: Article

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