Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of bacterial cooperation

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-32

  Mc Ginty, Sorcha E ^a,b,c   Rankin, Daniel J ^a,b   Brown, Sam P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative traits; Mobile genetic element; Parasite; Plasmid; Social dilemma

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; PLASMID; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MUTATION; PLASMID; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78650931883     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01121.x     Document Type: Article

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