Evolutionary pressures on simple sequence repeats in prokaryotic coding regions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2399-2413

  Lin, Wei Hsiang ^a   Kussell, Edo ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INDEL MUTATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84859323535     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1078     Document Type: Article

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