Prokaryote genome fluidity: Toward a system approach of the mobilome

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 804, Issue , 2012, Pages 57-80

  Toussaint, Ariane ^a   Chandler, Mick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Intercellular gene transfer; Mobile genetic elements; Prokaryotes adaptation and ev0olution; Recombination; Reticulate classification

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LANGAT VIRUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84855906559     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-361-5_4     Document Type: Article

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