Evidence for lateral gene transfer between archaea and bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6734, 1999, Pages 323-329

  Nelson, Karen E ^a   Clayton, Rebecca A ^a   Gill, Steven R ^a   Gwinn, Michelle L ^a   Dodson, Robert J ^a   Haft, Daniel H ^a   Hickey, Erin K ^a   Peterson, Jeremy D ^a   Nelson, William C ^a   Ketchum, Karen A ^a   McDonald, Lisa ^a   Utterback, Teresa R ^a   Malek, Joel A ^a   Linher, Katja D ^a   Garrett, Mina M ^a   Stewart, Ashley M ^a   Cotton, Matthew D ^a   Pratt, Matthew S ^a   Phillips, Cheryl A ^a   Richardson, Delwood ^a   Heidelberg, John ^a   Sutton, Granger G ^a   Fleischmann, Robert D ^a   Eisen, Jonathan A ^a   White, Owen ^a   Salzberg, Steven L ^a   Smith, Hamilton O ^a   Venter, J Craig ^a   Fraser, Claire M ^a   more..

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL DIVISION; EUBACTERIUM; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0033609333     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20601     Document Type: Article

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