Computational biology methods and their application to the comparative genomics of endocellular symbiotic bacteria of insects

Biological Procedures Online

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 52-78

  Commins, Jennifer ^a   Toft, Christina ^a   Fares, Mario A ^a  

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Author keywords

BLAST; Comparative genomics; Functional categories; Genomics dynamics; Orthologs search

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897531774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14809222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12575-009-9004-1     Document Type: Article

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