The percentage of bacterial genes on leading versus lagging strands is influenced by multiple balancing forces

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 8210-8218

  Mao, Xizeng ^a,c   Zhang, Han ^a,b   Yin, Yanbin ^a,c   Xu, Ying ^a,c,d  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Department of BioEnergy Science Center ^*  (United States)

^d JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME SIZE; LAGGING STRAND; LEADING STRAND; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME;

DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84866916315     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks605     Document Type: Article

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