Gene similarity networks provide tools for understanding eukaryote origins and evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 17, 2013, Pages

  Alvarez Ponce, David ^a,c,d   Lopez, Philippe ^b   Bapteste, Eric ^b   McInerney, James O ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular evolution; Mobile genetic elements; Network analysis; Organelles; Recombination

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIGELOWIELLA; CHLOROPLAST; CHROMALVEOLATA; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NAEGLERIA GRUBERI; NONHUMAN; OPISTHOKONTA; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SERIAL ENDOSYMBIOTIC THEORY; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VIRUS GENOME;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EUKARYOTA; GENES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PROTEOME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRUSES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84876826470     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211371110     Document Type: Article

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