Getting a better picture of microbial evolution en route to a network of genomes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1527, 2009, Pages 2187-2196

  Dagan, Tal ^a   Martin, William ^a  

^a Institute of Botany   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genomics; Networks; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE; SYMBIOSIS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; PROKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67651008667     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0040     Document Type: Article

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