Selfish operons: Horizontal transfer may drive the evolution of gene clusters

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1843-1860

  Lawrence, Jeffrey G ^a   Roth, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

ALLELES; BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, VIRAL; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0029847554     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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