Gene Loss and Gene Conservation in Obligatory Intracellular Parasites of Human

Current Bioinformatics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 214-221

  Sakharkar, Kishore R ^a   Sakharkar, Meena K ^b   Chow, Vincent T K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

backbone genome; comparative genomics; essential genes; genome reduction; Obligate intracellular parasites

Indexed keywords

PROTEINS;

% REDUCTIONS; BACKBONE GENOME; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE LOSS; GENOME REDUCTION; INTRACELLULAR PARASITES; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; OBLIGATE INTRACELLULAR PARASITE; PROTEIN LENGTH;

GENES;

EID: 65349145648     PISSN: 15748936     EISSN: 2212392X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157489307781662123     Document Type: Article

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