Association between translation efficiency and horizontal gene transfer within microbial communities

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4743-4755

  Tuller, Tamir ^a   Girshovich, Yana ^b   Sella, Yael ^b   Kreimer, Avi ^b   Freilich, Shiri ^b   Kupiec, Martin ^c   Gophna, Uri ^c   Ruppin, Eytan ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Tel Aviv University ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CODON; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 79959482487     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr054     Document Type: Article

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