Biased gene transfer and its implications for the concept of lineage

Biology Direct

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; PROKARYOTA; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETALES;

PHENYLALANINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; SERINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; THREONINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ALLELE; ARCHAEAL GENE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DATABASE; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALLELES; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; PHENYLALANINE-TRNA LIGASE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERINE-TRNA LIGASE; THREONINE-TRNA LIGASE;

EID: 80053175926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-47     Document Type: Article

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