Neutrality of foreign complex subunits in an experimental model of lateral gene transfer

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1835-1840

  Wellner, Alon ^a   Gophna, Uri ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Balance hypothesis; Complexity hypothesis; Escherichia coli; Essential genes; Horizontal gene transfer; Protein complexes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ACETYL-COA CARBOXYLASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LANGAT VIRUS;

EID: 49749111449     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn131     Document Type: Article

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