Successful lateral transfer requires codon usage compatibility between foreign genes and recipient genomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1884-1894

  Medrano Soto, Arturo ^a   Moreno Hagelsieb, Gabriel ^a,c   Vinuesa, Pablo ^a   Christen, J Andrés ^b   Collado Vides, Julio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian model; Codon usage compatibility; Comparative genomics; Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; EVOLUTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTROGRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE;

ARCHAEA; CODON; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES; PHYLOGENY; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 4944262629     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh202     Document Type: Article

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