Correlations between the role, sequence conservation, genomic location and severity of phenotype in myxobacterial developmental genes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-45

  Evans, Alice R ^a   Whitworth, David E ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fruiting body formation; Multicellularity; Myxobacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENETICS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; FRUITING BODY; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; LETTER; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFYING SELECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SPOROGENESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MYXOCOCCALES; PHENOTYPE;

MYXOCOCCALES;

EID: 78651518985     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02092.x     Document Type: Letter

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