Prediction of horizontal gene transfers in eukaryotes: Approaches and challenges

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 792-795

  Whitaker, John W ^a   McConkey, Glenn A ^a   Westhead, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endosymbiosis; Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Metabolic reconstruction; Parasite; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CODON; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 70349316181     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0370792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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