Evolutionary conservation analysis between the essential and nonessential genes in bacterial genomes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Luo, Hao ^a   Gao, Feng ^a,b   Lin, Yan ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SynBio Research Platform   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 84939442818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep13210     Document Type: Article

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