The source of laterally transferred genes in bacterial genomes

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Daubin, Vincent ^a,b   Lerat, Emmanuelle ^a   Perrière, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Base Composition; Codon; Codon Usage; Native Gene

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL DNA; ISOLEUCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PHYLOGENY;

ARGININE; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; ISOLEUCINE; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0642312312     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-9-r57     Document Type: Article

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