The excess of small inverted repeats in prokaryotes

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 291-300

  Ladoukakis, Emmanuel D ^b   Eyre Walker, Adam ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Genomic pattern; Prokaryotic genomes; Sequence directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PROKARYOTE; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POINT MUTATION; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 51749095915     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-008-9151-z     Document Type: Article

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