Evaluating the evolutionary origins of unexpected character distributions within the bacterial Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobia-Chlamydiae superphylum

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Budd, A ^a   Devos, D P ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene duplication; Gene loss; Lateral gene transfer; LGT; Phylogenetic estimation errors; PVC superphylum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875907024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00401     Document Type: Article

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