Evidence that mutation is universally biased towards AT in bacteria

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Hershberg, Ruth ^a   Petrov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78049445172     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001115     Document Type: Article

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