The role played by viruses in the evolution of their hosts: A view based on informational protein phylogenies

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 237-243

  Filée, Jonathan ^a   Forterre, Patrick ^a   Laurent, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Horizontal gene transfer; Mitochondria; Nonorthologous gene displacement; Phage; Phylogeny; Plasmid; Virus

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE DELTA; ENZYME; HELICASE; PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL LINE; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS EXAMINATION;

EID: 0038054297     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(03)00066-4     Document Type: Article

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