Ancient horizontal gene transfer

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 121-132

  Brown, James R ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; ISOLEUCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; METHANE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CELL DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LIFE; METHANOSARCINA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PARENT; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REVIEW; RISK; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TECHNIQUE; THEORY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; METHANOSARCINA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 0037306453     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1000     Document Type: Review

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