Universal protein families and the functional content of the last universal common ancestor

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 413-423

  Kyrpides, Nikos ^a,b   Overbeek, Ross ^b   Ouzounis, Christos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biochemical pathways; Cellular evolution; Genomics; Last Universal Common Ancestor; Metabolic reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE LOSS; GENE TRANSFER; METHANOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENOME; METHANOCOCCUS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0032828663     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006564     Document Type: Article

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