Quantification of codon selection for comparative bacterial genomics

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Retchless, Adam C ^a,b   Lawrence, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSINE; METHIONINE; PROLINE; THREONINE; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN; VALINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CODON USAGE; ENDOSYMBIONT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS MENDOCINA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; STATISTICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIA; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 79960573669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-374     Document Type: Article

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