Ancient horizontal gene transfer and the last common ancestors Phylogenetics and phylogeography

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Fournier, Gregory P ^a   Andam, Cheryl P ^b   Gogarten, Johann Peter ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Cenancestor; Horizontal gene transfer; Hypnolog; Last Universal Common Ancestor; LUCA

Indexed keywords

COMMON ANCESTRY; EXTINCTION; GENE TRANSFER; LIFE HISTORY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ANIMAL; ARCHAEON; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84929145859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0350-0     Document Type: Article

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