The extinction dynamics of bacterial pseudogenes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Kuo, Chih Horng ^a,b   Ochman, Howard ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOGENE; SALMONELLA;

GENE DELETION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; SALMONELLA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA;

EID: 77957343695     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001050     Document Type: Article

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