Evolutionary analyses of the small subunit of glutamate synthase: Gene order conservation, gene fusions, and prokaryote-to-eukaryote lateral gene transfers

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 304-310

  Andersson, Jan O ^a   Roger, Andrew J ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPLOMONADIDA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

CYTOCHROME C; FLAVOCYTOCHROME C SULFIDE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FLAGELLATE; GENE; GENE FUSION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; DIPLOMONADIDA; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0036550477     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.1.2.304-310.2002     Document Type: Article

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