The evolutionary relationships between the two bacteria Escherichia coli and Haemophilus influenzae and their putative last common ancestor

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-27

  De Rosa, Renaud ^a   Labedan, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Bacterial evolution; Comparative genomics; Escherichia coli; Gene duplication; Gene families; Haemophilus influenzae; Paralogous proteins; Rearrangements of bacterial chromosomes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC DISTANCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031974376     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025843     Document Type: Article

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