Evolution of mosaic operons by horizontal gene transfer and gene displacement in situ

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Omelchenko, Marina V ^a,b   Makarova, Kira S ^b   Wolf, Yuri I ^b   Rogozin, Igor B ^b   Koonin, Eugene V ^b  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Gene Displacement; Horizontal Gene Transfer; Horizontal Gene Transfer Event; Horizontal Transfer

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC EVOLUTION; PURIFYING SELECTION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; DEINOCOCCUS; GENETICS; GENOME; HALOBACTERIUM; METABOLISM; METHANOBACTERIUM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOPLASMA; RICKETTSIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DECAPRENYLTRANSFERASE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LIPID; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RUVB PROTEIN, BACTERIA; TRANSFERASE;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DEINOCOCCUS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX I; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HALOBACTERIUM; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LIPIDS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; METHANOBACTERIACEAE; MYCOPLASMA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 0642312313     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-9-r55     Document Type: Article

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