The human microbiome: A hot spot of microbial horizontal gene transfer

Genomics

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 265-270

  Liu, Li ^a,c   Chen, Xiaowei ^b,c   Skogerbø, Geir ^b   Zhang, Peng ^a   Chen, Runsheng ^b   He, Shunmin ^a   Huang, Da Wei ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Horizontal gene transfer; Human microbiome; Microbial HGT network

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CATALYSIS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN MICROBIOME; METABOLIC REGULATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOTA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION;

EID: 84867918293     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2012.07.012     Document Type: Article

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