Horizontal Gene Transfer in Microbial Genome Evolution

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 489-495

  Jain, Ravi ^a   Rivera, Maria C ^a   Moore, Jonathan E ^a   Lake, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity hypothesis; Genomics; Informational; Operational

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME;

EUKARYOTA; GENETTA; JONES; PROKARYOTA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; REVIEW;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME;

EID: 0036595304     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2002.1596     Document Type: Article

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