Horizontal gene transfer, genome innovation and evolution

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 679-687

  Gogarten, J Peter ^a   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HISTONE; PROTEIN DNAK; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA TRANSFER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THERMOTOGALES;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARCHAEA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; THERMOTOGALES;

EID: 23944499633     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1204     Document Type: Review

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