On surrogate methods for detecting lateral gene transfer

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 187-191

  Ragan, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

GC content; Horizontal gene transfer; Lateral gene transfer; Markov model; Microbial evolution; Nucleotide composition

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOSINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GUANINE; MARKOV CHAINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0035943134     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00262-2     Document Type: Article

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