Role of premature stop codons in bacterial evolution

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 6718-6725

  Wong, Tit Yee ^a,e   Fernandes, Sanjit ^a   Sankhon, Naby ^a   Leong, Patrick P ^b   Kuo, Jimmy ^c   Liu, Jong Kang ^d  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b Gigamon Systems   (United States)

^c NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MARINE BIOLOGY AND AQUARIUM   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON;

BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON, NONSENSE; CODON, TERMINATOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS;

EID: 53849090624     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00682-08     Document Type: Article

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