Evolutionary implications of horizontal gene transfer

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 341-358

  Syvanen, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEON; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYANOBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE; GENE FLOW; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BDELLOIDA; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 84870200615     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110711-155529     Document Type: Review

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