Detecting lateral genetic transfer: A phylogenetic approach

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 452, Issue , 2008, Pages 457-469

  Beiko, Robert G ^a   Ragan, Mark A ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lateral genetic transfer; Multiple sequence alignment; Orthology, edit paths; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

LANGAT VIRUS;

EID: 84934441460     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-159-2_21     Document Type: Article

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