Speciation in Chlamydia: Genomewide Phylogenetic Analyses Identified a Reliable Set of Acquired Genes

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 672-680

  Ortutay, Csaba ^a   Gáspári, Zoltán ^a   Tóth, Gábor ^b   Jáger, Edit ^a   Vida, Gábor ^a   Orosz, László ^a,b   Vellai, Tibor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Chlamydia; Deletion; Duplication; Genome evolution; Genome rearrangement; Horizontal gene transfer; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RELIABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BASE COMPOSITION; CHLAMYDIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0346104824     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-2517-3     Document Type: Article

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