Stability along with extreme variability in core genome evolution

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1393-1402

  Wolf, Yuri I ^a   Snir, Sagi ^b   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Evolutionary rate; Molecular clock; Universal genes; Universal pacemaker of genome evolution

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; UNIVERSAL GENES; UNIVERSAL PACEMAKER OF GENOME EVOLUTION; BACTERIA;

EVOLUTIONARY RATE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; UNIVERSAL GENES; UNIVERSAL PACEMAKER OF GENOME EVOLUTION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84891687862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt098     Document Type: Article

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