Relationship between operon preference and functional properties of persistent genes in bacterial genomes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bratlie, Marit S ^a   Johansen, Jostein ^a   Drabløs, Finn ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; OPERON; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77649282211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-71     Document Type: Article

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