Large variations in bacterial ribosomal RNA genes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2937-2948

  Lim, Kyungtaek ^a   Furuta, Yoshikazu ^a   Kobayashi, Ichizo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flavobacteria; genomic rearrangement; Mycoplasma; rRNA; Shine Dalgarno sequence; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVOBACTERIA; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS CREMORIS; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMBIONT; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FLAVOBACTERIA; MYCOPLASMA;

EID: 84866887118     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss101     Document Type: Article

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