A new SPIN on horizontal transfer

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 44, 2008, Pages 16827-16828

  Lisch, Damon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA;

DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 55949115391     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809525105     Document Type: Note

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