An evolutionary analysis of lateral gene transfer in thymidylate synthase enzymes

Systematic Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 212-225

  Stern, Adi ^a   Mayrose, Itay ^b   Penn, Osnat ^a   Shaul, Shaul ^c   Gophna, Uri ^a   Pupko, Tal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Department of Zoology ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolutionary models; Lateral gene transfer; Thymidylate synthase

Indexed keywords

LANGAT VIRUS;

THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

EID: 77649249551     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp104     Document Type: Article

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