Horizontal gene transfer and diverse functional constrains within a common replication-partitioning system in Alphaproteobacteria: The repABC operon

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Castillo Ramírez, Santiago ^a   Vázquez Castellanos, Jorge F ^a   González, Víctor ^a   Cevallos, Miguel A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; ADAPTATION; BAYES THEOREM; CODON; DNA REPLICATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PLASMID; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIALES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BAYES THEOREM; CODON; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 71049177075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-536     Document Type: Article

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