Prokaryotic genes in eukaryotic genome sequences: When to infer horizontal gene transfer and when to suspect an actual microbe

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2203-2208

  Artamonova, Irena I ^a,b,c   Lappi, Tanya ^d   Zudina, Liudmila ^e   Mushegian, Arcady R ^f  

^a VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e St Mary's School Calne   (United Kingdom)

^f National Science Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUKARYOTA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84937073270     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12854     Document Type: Article

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