Lateral gene transfer occurring in haloarchaea: An interpretative imitation study

World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2913-2918

  Chen, Shaoxing ^a,b,c,d   Tulloss, Rodham E ^e   Liu, Yanhong ^c   Feng, Bang ^a   Zhao, Zhiwei ^b   Yang, Zhu L ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONGHE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell permeability; dsDNA; Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Transformation

Indexed keywords

GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; STRAIN;

CELL PERMEABILITY; DSDNA; EVOLUTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; TRANSFORMATION;

GENES;

HALOBACTERIA; HALOBACTERIALES; HALOFERAX; HALORUBRUM; LANGAT VIRUS;

EID: 84865564418     PISSN: 09593993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11274-012-1101-7     Document Type: Article

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