Biased gene transfer mimics patterns created through shared ancestry

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

Volumn 107, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 10679-10684

  Andam, Cheryl P ^a   Williams, David ^a   Gogarten, J Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl; Bacteria; Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Lateral gene transfer; tRNA synthetase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; TYROSINE TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TYROSINE-TRNA LIGASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77953776263     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001418107     Document Type: Article

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