The Modern Synthesis in the Light of Microbial Genomics

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue , 2016, Pages 279-297

  Booth, Austin ^a,b   Mariscal, Carlos ^a,b,c   Doolittle, W Ford ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endosymbiosis; Genomics; Lateral gene transfer; Microbiology; Modern Synthesis; Tree of life

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CELL LINEAGE; COMMUNITY; ECOTYPE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTE; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL GENOME; MODERN SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ONTOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYNTHESIS; TREE OF LIFE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY;

SYNTHETIC DNA;

BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84986569440     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-102215-095456     Document Type: Review

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