Lateral gene transfers and the origins of the eukaryote proteome: A view from microbial parasites

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue , 2015, Pages 155-162

  Hirt, Robert P ^a   Alsmark, Cecilia ^b,c   Embley, T Martin ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTESTINE FLORA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

EUKARYOTA; LANGAT VIRUS; PROKARYOTA;

PROTEOME;

ANIMALS; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEOME;

EID: 84916928050     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2014.11.018     Document Type: Review

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