Why are genes encoded on the lagging strand of the bacterial genome?

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2436-2439

  Chen, Xiaoshu ^a   Zhang, Jianzhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Evolution; Mutation selection balance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; MUTATION-SELECTION BALANCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CONVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; MUTATION-SELECTION BALANCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84892535526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt193     Document Type: Article

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