Evidence that plant-like genes in Chlamydia species reflect an ancestral relationship between Chlamydiaceae, cyanobacteria, and the chloroplast

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1159-1167

  Brinkman, Fiona S L ^a,b   Blanchard, Jeffrey L ^c,d   Cherkasov, Artem ^b   Av Gay, Yossef ^b   Brunham, Robert C ^b   Fernandez, Rachel C ^b   Finlay, B Brett ^b   Otto, Sarah P ^b   Ouellette, B F Francis ^e   Keeling, Patrick J ^b   Rose, Ann M ^b   Hancock, Robert E W ^b   Jones, Steven J M ^f  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c PROMEGA CORPORATION   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENOME RESOURCES   (United States)

^e Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics   (Canada)

^f BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0037224286     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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