Accounting for horizontal gene transfers explains conflicting hypotheses regarding the position of aquificales in the phylogeny of Bacteria

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Boussau, Bastien ^a   Guéguen, Laurent ^a   Gouy, Manolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AQUIFEX; AQUIFICALES; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL LINEAGE; CLADISTICS; DATA BASE; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMOTOGALES; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY;

AQUIFEX; AQUIFICALES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; THERMOTOGALES;

BACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 56349169406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-272     Document Type: Article

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