Highlight: Tiny bacterial genome opens a huge mystery: At mutational bias in Hodgkinia

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-29

  Venton, Danielle ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADENINE; BACTERIAL DNA; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA REPLICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; SYMBIOSIS;

ADENINE; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; POINT MUTATION; SYMBIOSIS; THYMINE;

EID: 84862980853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr135     Document Type: Note

References (3)

1. Hershberg R, Petrov DA. 2010. Evidence that mutation is universally biased towards AT in bacteria. PLoS Genet. 6:e1001115.
2. Hildebrand F, Meyer A, Eyre-Walker A. 2010. Evidence of selection upon genomic GC-content in bacteria. PLoS Genet. 6:e1001107.
3. Van Leuven JT, McCutcheon JP. 2011. An AT mutational bias in the tiny GCrich endosymbiont genome of Hodgkinia. Genome Biol Evol. Advance Access publication November 23, 2011, doi:10.1093/gbe/evr125