Parallel evolution of transcriptome architecture during genome reorganization

Genome Research

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1892-1904

  Yoon, Sung Ho ^a   Reiss, David J ^a   Bare, J Christopher ^a   Tenenbaum, Dan ^a   Pan, Min ^a   Slagel, Joseph ^a   Moritz, Robert L ^a   Lim, Sujung ^b   Hackett, Murray ^c   Menon, Angeli Lal ^d   Adams, Michael W W ^d   Barnebey, Adam ^e   Yannone, Steven M ^e   Leigh, John A ^b   Baliga, Nitin S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HALOPHILE; METHANOCOCCUS MARIPALUDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; RIBOSOME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; THERMOPHILE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ARCHAEA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARCHAEA; HALOBACTERIUM SP. NRC-1; METHANOCOCCUS MARIPALUDIS; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS DSM 3638; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 80555156624     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.122218.111     Document Type: Article

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