Archaeal phylogeny based on proteins of the transcription and translation machineries: tackling the Methanopyrus kandleri paradox

Genome Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Brochier, Céline ^a   Forterre, Patrick ^b   Gribaldo, Simonetta ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

Author keywords

Archaeal Genome; Archaeal Lineage; Lateral Gene Transfer; Reverse Gyrase; Translation Tree

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METHANOCOCCUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SULFOLOBALES; THERMOPLASMALES;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EURYARCHAEOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; METHANOCOCCUS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SULFOLOBALES; THERMOPLASMALES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 4544235395     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-3-r17     Document Type: Article

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