Searching for the common ancestor

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 85-89

  Doolittle, Russell F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous phylogenies; Endosymbiont imports; Horizontal gene transfers

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ALIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0034080049     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(00)00124-8     Document Type: Review

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