Horizontal gene transfer and the origin of species: Lessons from bacteria

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 128-133

  De la Cruz, Fernando ^a   Davies, Julian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGENESIS; EUKARYOTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034163439     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(00)01703-0     Document Type: Review

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