Adaptation through horizontal gene transfer in the cryptoendolithic red alga Galdieria phlegrea

Current Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2013, Pages

  Qiu, Huan ^a   Price, Dana C ^a   Weber, Andreas P M ^b   Reeb, Valérie ^c   Chan Yang, Eun ^d   Lee, Jun Mo ^e   Kim, Su Yeon ^f   Yoon, Hwan Su ^e   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^e Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^f Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LETTER; PLANT GENOME; RED ALGA; VOLVOX;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, PLANT; RHODOPHYTA; VOLVOX;

EID: 84885233255     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.08.046     Document Type: Letter

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