The evolutionary dynamics of operon distributions in eukaryote genomes

Genetics

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 685-693

  Cutter, Asher D ^a,b   Agrawal, Aneil F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC MODEL; GENOME ANALYSIS; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; NEMATODE;

ASCIDIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EUKARYOTA; NEMATODA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; GENOME; NEMATODA; OPERON;

EID: 77955499635     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.115766     Document Type: Article

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