Scaling laws in bacterial genomes: A side-effect of selection of mutational robustness?

BioSystems

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-40

  Beslon, G ^a,c   Parsons, D P ^a,c   Sanchez Dehesa, Y ^a,c   Pena J M ^b   Knibbe, C ^a,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c ENS Lyon   (France)

Author keywords

Evolvability; Gene content; Modelling; Mutational robustness; Scaling laws; Transcription Factors

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SELECTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME SIZE; NONHUMAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77953501871     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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