The fate of new bacterial genes

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-43

  Kuo, Chih Horng ^b   Ochman, Howard ^a,b,c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene inventories; Genome evolution; Interaction networks; Lateral gene transfer

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 57549115252     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2008.00140.x     Document Type: Review

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