A minimal estimate for the gene content of the last universal common ancestor - Exobiology from a terrestrial perspective

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-68

  Ouzounis, Christos A ^a   Kunin, Victor ^a   Darzentas, Nikos ^a   Goldovsky, Leon ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancestral reconstruction; Function annotation; Genome comparison; Last ancestor

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ASTRONOMY; BIOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOMICS; LIFE; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ALGORITHMS; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXOBIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; PHYLOGENY;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 32044440746     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2005.06.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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