Lateral gene transfer and parallel evolution in the history of glutathione biosynthesis genes

Genome Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Copley, Shelley D ^a   Dhillon, Jasvinder K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular Permutation; Eukaryotic Lineage; Glutathione Synthetase; Lateral Gene Transfer; Lateral Transfer

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN DATABASE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 18344418957     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-5-research0025     Document Type: Article

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