Transcriptomic and phylogenetic analysis of a bacterial cell cycle reveals strong associations between gene co-expression and evolution

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fang, Gang ^a   Passalacqua, Karla D ^b   Hocking, Jason ^a   Llopis, Paula M ^a   Gerstein, Mark ^a   Bergman, Nicholas H ^b   Jacobs Wagner, Christine ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caulobacter crescentus; Cell cycle phylogenomics; Co expression network; Functional modules; Selective pressure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CLADISTICS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BACTERIAL GENE; CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; CHROMOSOME MAP; CYTOLOGY; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84879809209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-450     Document Type: Article

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