The impact of long-distance horizontal gene transfer on prokaryotic genome size

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 51, 2009, Pages 21748-21753

  Cordero, Otto X ^a   Hogeweg, Paulien ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Functional gene content; Lateral gene transfer; Microbial genomes; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE;

GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 76049094717     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907584106     Document Type: Article

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