Essentiality drives the orientation bias of bacterial genes in a continuous manner

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zheng, Wen Xin ^a   Luo, Cheng Si ^b   Deng, Yan Yan ^b   Guo, Feng Biao ^b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DNA STRAND; ESSENTIAL GENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOME, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84946925898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16431     Document Type: Article

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