The organization of the bacterial genome

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue , 2008, Pages 211-233

  Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; Nucleoid; Rearrangements; Replication; Segregation; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OPERON; REPLICATION ORIGIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 58449118337     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.42.110807.091653     Document Type: Review

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