A Blueprint for a Mutationist Theory of Replicative Strand Asymmetries Formation

Current Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-64

  Khrustalev, Vladislav V ^a   Barkovsky, Eugene V ^a  

^a BELARUSIAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Chirochore; GC content; Isochore; Mutational pressure; Nonsense mutation; Replichore

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE; THYMINE; URACIL;

ARCHAEAL GENOME; ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA STRAND; GENE REPLICATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84856439179     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: 18755488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920212799034730     Document Type: Review

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