Properties of overlapping genes are conserved across microbial genomes

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2268-2272

  Johnson, Zackary I ^a   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME SIZE; HYPOTHESIS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROORGANISM; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, OVERLAPPING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; OPEN READING FRAMES;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 8744308029     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.2433104     Document Type: Article

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