Gene transfers from nanoarchaeota to an ancestor of diplomonads and parabasalids

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-90

  Andersson, Jan O ^a,b   Sarchfield, Stewart W ^a   Roger, Andrew J ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Giardia lamblia; Lateral gene transfer; Nanoarchaeum equitans; Phylogeny; Trichomonas vaginalis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; PROLINE TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CRENARCHAEOTA; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; FLAGELLATE; GENE FUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICING;

ALANINE-TRNA LIGASE; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; CELL LINEAGE; DIPLOMONADIDA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NANOARCHAEOTA; PHYLOGENY; ZOOMASTIGOPHORA;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; DIPLOMONADIDA; EUKARYOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); NANOARCHAEOTA; NANOARCHAEUM; NANOARCHAEUM EQUITANS; PARABASALIDEA; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 10344246580     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh254     Document Type: Article

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