Multiple genome comparison within a bacterial species reveals a unit of evolution spanning two adjacent genes in a tandem paralog cluster

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2457-2473

  Tsuru, Takeshi ^a   Kobayashi, Ichizo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene duplication; Genome comparison; Genome evolution; Genome rearrangement; MRSA; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARALOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 54149083057     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn192     Document Type: Article

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