Reticulate evolution and marine organisms: The final frontier?

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3836-3860

  Arnold, Michael L ^a   Fogarty, Nicole D ^b  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Horizontal transfer; Introgression; Marine; Web of life

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADAPTATION; ANGIOSPERM; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; CLADISTICS; CORAL; CRUSTACEA; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENE FLOW; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; MICROORGANISM; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; RETICULATE EVOLUTION; REVIEW; SEA URCHIN; SEAL; SEAWEED; SHRIMP; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSPOSON; TURTLE; VIRUS RECOMBINATION;

HORIZONTAL TRANSFER; INTROGRESSION; MARINE; WEB OF LIFE;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; DIATOMS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 70350065671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms10093836     Document Type: Review

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