Gene invasion in distant eukaryotic lineages: Discovery of mutually exclusive genetic elements reveals marine biodiversity

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1764-1774

  Monier, Adam ^a   Sudek, Sebastian ^a   Fast, Naomi M ^b   Worden, Alexandra Z ^a  

^a MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

horizontal transfer; inteins; invasive elements; metagenomics; polymorphic introns; viridiplantae

Indexed keywords

INTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; PARASITE; PROTEIN; PROTIST;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; VIROLOGY;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROPHYTA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENVIRONMENT; EUKARYOTA; INTEINS; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BATHYCOCCUS; CAPSASPORA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP; PROTISTA; SALPINGOECA; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 84883171601     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.70     Document Type: Article

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