A selective force favoring increased G+C content in bacterial genes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 36, 2012, Pages 14504-14507

  Raghavan, Rahul ^a   Kelkar, Yogeshwar D ^a   Ochman, Howard ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial adaptation; Genome evolution; Mutational patterns

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTIDINE; GUANOSINE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FITNESS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BASE COMPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; MUTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84865973296     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205683109     Document Type: Article

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