New hypotheses on the material nature of horizontally mobile genes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 906, Issue , 2000, Pages 169-186

  Heinemann, Jack A ^a   Roughan, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE TRANSFER; INHERITANCE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0034056413     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06609.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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