The constancy of gene conservation across divergent bacterial orders

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Orthologous genes are frequently presumed to perform similar functions. However, outside of model organisms, this is rarely tested. One means of inferring changes in function is if there are changes in the level of gene conservation...

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Main Authors: Ackermann Martin, Silander Olin K
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-01-01
Series:BMC Research Notes
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/2/2