Ancient gene transfer from algae to animals: Mechanisms and evolutionary significance

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ni, Ting ^a,b   Yue, Jipei ^c   Sun, Guiling ^c   Zou, Yong ^a,b   Wen, Jianfan ^a   Huang, Jinling ^c  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal evolution; Endosymbiosis; Gene transfer; Plastids

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FILTER FEEDER; FLAGELLATE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMICS; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PLASTID;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHOANOFLAGELLIDA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EUKARYOTA; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLASTID;

ANIMALS; CHOANOFLAGELLATA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; PLASTIDS;

EID: 84861987330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-83     Document Type: Article

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