Across bacterial phyla, distantly-related genomes with similar genomic GC content have similar patterns of amino acid usage

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Lightfield, John ^a,b   Fram, Noah R ^a,c   Ely, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b RIPON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROBI; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEOBACTERIA; TAXON; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952517818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017677     Document Type: Article

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