A Rooted Net of Life

Biology Direct

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Williams, David ^a   Fournier, Gregory P ^b   Lapierre, Pascal ^a   Swithers, Kristen S ^a   Green, Anna G ^a   Andam, Cheryl P ^a   Gogarten, J Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOME; RNA GENE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 80052097306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-45     Document Type: Review

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