Impact of Recombination on the Base Composition of Bacteriaand Archaea

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 2627-2636

  Bobay, Louis Marie ^a   Ochman, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial genomes; biased gene conversion; G+C contents; recombination; sequence evolution

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PURIFYING SELECTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 85030668669     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx189     Document Type: Article

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