Conditions for the evolution of gene clusters in bacterial genomes

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Ballouz, Sara ^a,c   Francis, Andrew R ^b   Lan, Ruiting ^a   Tanaka, Mark M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c VICTOR CHANG CARDIAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOMES; BACTERIAL GENOMES; CLOSE PROXIMITY; CO-REGULATION; CONDITION; ENCODING PROTEINS; GENE CLUSTERS; GENES ENCODING; NATURAL SELECTION; PERSISTENCE MODELS;

GENE ENCODING;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE CLUSTER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; OPERON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON;

EID: 77649206429     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000672     Document Type: Article

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