Validation of bacterial replication termination models using simulation of genomic mutations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kono, Nobuaki ^a   Arakawa, Kazuharu ^a   Tomita, Masaru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FIRMICUTES; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEOBACTERIA; REPLICATION TERMINATION; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA REPLICATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84859226913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034526     Document Type: Article

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