Evolutionary patterns in prokaryotic genomes

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 454-460

  Rocha, Eduardo PC ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC DRIFT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHIGELLA; TREE OF LIFE; TURNOVER TIME; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 55049138544     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2008.09.007     Document Type: Review

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