Catalyzing bacterial speciation: Correlating lateral transfer with genetic headroom

Systematic Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 479-496

  Lawrence, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Codon usage bias; Compositional bias; Evolution; Genome; Horizontal transfer; Speciation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POINT MUTATION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA; CODON; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; POINT MUTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035527403     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150120286     Document Type: Article

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