On the Evolution of the Single-Subunit RNA Polymerases

1997/12/01 by Nicolas Cermakian, Tatsuya M. Ikeda, Pedro Miramóntes +4 · 160 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Immunology and Microbiology · #Bacteriophages and microbial interactions #Biology #Gene #Gene duplication #Genetics #Genome #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Microbial infections and disease research #Mitochondrial DNA #Phylogenetic tree #Polymerase #RNA #RNA polymerase

paper · doi:10.1007/pl00006271

published in Journal of Molecular Evolution 45(6), 671-681 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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