The pseudogenes of Mycobacterium leprae reveal the functional relevance of gene order within operons

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1732-1738

  Muro, Enrique M ^a   Mah, Nancy ^a   Moreno Hagelsieb, Gabriel ^b   Andrade Navarro, Miguel A ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE ORDER; GENOME ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE;

GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; OPERON; PSEUDOGENES;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79953160460     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1067     Document Type: Article

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