Adaptive evolution of bacterial metabolic networks by horizontal gene transfer

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1372-1375

  Pál, Csaba ^a,b   Papp, Balázs ^b,c   Lercher, Martin J ^a,d  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 28444475529     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1686     Document Type: Article

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