Horizontal gene transfer accelerates genome innovation and evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1598-1602

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchange community; Genome evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Lateral gene transfer

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CARBON UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; TEMPERATURE;

PROKARYOTA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0242371471     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg154     Document Type: Article

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