From the primordial soup to the latest universal common ancestor

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 160, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 437-440

  Vaneechoutte, Mario ^a   Fani, Renato ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Darwin; Horizontal gene transfer; Last universal common ancestor; Life; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CYTOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC MARKER; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA ANALYSIS;

BIOGENESIS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 70349985700     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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