The Chlamydiales pangenome revisited: Structural stability and functional coherence

Genes

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 291-319

  Psomopoulos, Fotis E ^a,b   Siarkou, Victoria I ^b   Papanikolaou, Nikolas ^c   Iliopoulos, Ioannis ^c   Tsaftaris, Athanasios S ^a,b   Promponas, Vasilis J ^d   Ouzounis, Christos A ^a,d,e  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chlamydiales; Comparative genomics; Genome annotation; Genome trees; Pangenome analysis; Protein family detection

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL PANGENOME; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIALES;

EID: 84863324715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes3020291     Document Type: Article

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