Rates of Lateral Gene Transfer in Prokaryotes: High but Why?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 598-605

  Vos, Michiel ^a   Hesselman, Matthijn C ^b   te Beek, Tim A ^c   van Passel, Mark W J ^b,d   Eyre Walker, Adam ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS BIOINFORMATICS CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessory genome; Distribution of fitness effects; Gene content; Gene loss; Lateral gene transfer; Mutation rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE CONTENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE GAIN; GENE LOSS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENOME SIZE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MICROBIAL GENOME; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PURIFYING SELECTION; ARCHAEAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

EID: 84943628244     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2015.07.006     Document Type: Review

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