Biased biological functions of horizontally-transferred genes in prokaryotic genomes

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 760-766

  Nakamura, Yoji ^a,e   Itoh, Takeshi ^b,c   Matsuda, Hideo ^d   Gojobori, Takashi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL SURFACE; DNA BINDING; GENE FLOW; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE;

ALGORITHMS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 3042849253     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1381     Document Type: Article

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