Evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer from the draft genome of a tardigrade

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 52, 2015, Pages 15976-15981

  Boothby, Thomas C ^a   Tenlen, Jennifer R ^a,e   Smith, Frank W ^a   Wang, Jeremy R ^a,b   Patanella, Kiera A ^a   Nishimura, Erin Osborne ^a   Tintori, Sophia C ^a   Li, Qing ^c   Jones, Corbin D ^a   Yandell, Mark ^c   Messina, David N ^d   Glasscock, Jarret ^d   Goldstein, Bob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Seattle Pacific University ^*  (United States)

^e SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome; Horizontal gene transfer; Lateral gene transfer; Stress tolerance; Tardigrade

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; FUNGUS; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYPSIBIUS DUJARDINI; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; RNA SPLICING; TARDIGRADA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; FUNGAL DNA; PLANT DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMALS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, PLANT; DNA, VIRAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; GENOMIC LIBRARY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 84952683511     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1510461112     Document Type: Article

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