Quartet Mapping and the Extent of Lateral Transfer in Bacterial Genomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 86-89

  Daubin, Vincent ^a   Ochman, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial phylogeny; Lateral gene transfer; Maximum likelihood; Quartet trees

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE; TAXON;

BACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DARWINIA; LANGAT VIRUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 1242284664     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg234     Document Type: Article

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