Horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotes: Quantification and classification

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2001, Pages 709-742

  Koonin, E V ^a   Makarova, K S ^a   Aravind, L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Gene acquisition; Gene displacement; Orthologs; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CARRIER PROTEIN; ISOLEUCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM; CHLAMYDIA; EUKARYOTE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 0034780910     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.55.1.709     Document Type: Review

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