Genome-wide experimental determination of barriers to horizontal gene transfer

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5855, 2007, Pages 1449-1452

  Sorek, Rotem ^a,b   Zhu, Yiwen ^b   Creevey, Christopher J ^c   Francino, M Pilar ^a   Bork, Peer ^c   Rubin, Edward M ^a,b  

^a DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; INHIBITION; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INHIBITION KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROMOTER REGION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 36249021315     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147112     Document Type: Article

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