title: The compositional organization and the expression of the Arabidopsis genome.
abstract: The base composition patterns of genes, coding sequences and gene expression levels were analyzed in the available long sequences (contigs) of Arabidopsis. Chromosome 5 was analyzed in detail and all chromosomes for which sequence data are now available show essentially the same large-scale compositional properties. Guanine+cytosine levels of genes and of their coding regions, as well as gene densities and expression levels, all show a marked tendency to be higher in the distal regions of Arabidopsis chromosomes.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Evoluzione Molecolare, Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn', Villa Comunale, 80121, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Carels
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bernardi
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics*; D001482:Base Composition; D015870:Gene Expression; D018745:Genome, Plant