Nucleotide compositional asymmetry between the leading and lagging strands of eubacterial genomes

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 161, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 838-846

  Qu, Hongzhu ^a,b   Wu, Hao ^a,c   Zhang, Tongwu ^a,c   Zhang, Zhang ^d   Hu, Songnian ^a   Yu, Jun ^a,d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Codon position; Gradient; Nucleotide composition asymmetry; PolC; Strand biased gene distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; DNA REPAIR; EUBACTERIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE COMPOSITIONAL ASYMMETRY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA; CODON; DNA POLYMERASE III; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; NUCLEOTIDES; POINT MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78649947901     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2010.09.015     Document Type: Article

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