Defining the core of nontransferable prokaryotic genes: The euryarchaeal core

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 340-350

  Nesbø, Camilla L ^a   Boucher, Yan ^a   Doolittle, W Ford ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archaea; Core hypothesis; Euryarchaea; Informational genes; Lateral gene transfer; Operational genes; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

EID: 0034831587     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002390010224     Document Type: Article

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