GC content-independent amino acid patterns in Bacteria and Archaea

Journal of Basic Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 195-205

  Schmidt, Andre ^a   Rzanny, Michael ^a   Schmidt, Astrid ^a   Hagen, Matthias ^b   Schütze, Eileen ^a   Kothe, Erika ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acid composition; Correspondence analysis; Evolution; Proteome

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEOME;

ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA PENETRANS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 84859124875     PISSN: 0233111X     EISSN: 15214028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201100067     Document Type: Article

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