Horizontal gene acquisitions by eukaryotes as drivers of adaptive evolution

BioEssays

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-20

  Schönknecht, Gerald ^a   Weber, Andreas P M ^b   Lercher, Martin J ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Evolution; Genome; Horizontal gene transfer; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; METAL;

APHID; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNGAL METABOLISM; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PARENT; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROGENY; PROKARYOTE; RED ALGA; THERMOACIDOPHILE;

ALGAE; APHIDIDAE; EUKARYOTA; GALDIERIA SULPHURARIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA;

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PHYLOGENY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84889681836     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300095     Document Type: Article

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