How big is the iceberg of which organellar genes in nuclear genomes are but the tip?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1429, 2003, Pages 39-58

  Doolittle, W F ^a   Boucher, Y ^a   Nesbo C L ^a   Douady, C J ^a   Andersson, J O ^a   Roger, A J ^a   Andersson, S G E ^b   Martin, W ^c   Raven, J A ^d   Lane, N ^e   Whatley, F R ^f  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eukaryotes; Genome evolution; Lateral gene transfer; Prokaryotes

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENOME; PROKARYOTE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; LANGAT VIRUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037471694     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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