Migration and horizontal gene transfer divide microbial genomes into multiple niches

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Niehus, Rene ^a   Mitri, Sara ^b   Fletcher, Alexander G ^a,c   Foster, Kevin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NATURAL SELECTION;

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; ECOLOGY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IMMIGRATION; MICROBIAL GENOME; MICROORGANISM; NATURAL SELECTION; PREDICTION; SPECIES; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS;

BACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84947996592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9924     Document Type: Article

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