Do phages efficiently shuttle transposable elements among prokaryotes?

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3327-3331

  Leclercq, Sébastien ^a   Cordaux, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

ACLAME; Horizontal transfer; Insertion sequence; Plasmid; Viruses

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

BACTERIOPHAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PLASMID; PROKARYOTE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PLASMID; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; PLASMIDS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSPOSASES;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 80054924852     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01395.x     Document Type: Article

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