Codon usages of genes on chromosome, and surprisingly, genes in plasmid are primarily affected by strand-specific mutational biases in lawsonia intracellularis

DNA Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-104

  Guo, Feng Biao ^a   Yuan, Jian Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Lawsonia intracellularis; Plasmid; Replication mechanism; Strand specific mutational bias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON; DNA REPLICATION; DNAT GENE; FIS GENE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LAWSONIA; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CODON; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LAWSONIA BACTERIA; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 70349560340     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: 17561663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsp001     Document Type: Article

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