Two fundamentally different classes of microbial genes

Nature Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wolf, Yuri I ^a   Makarova, Kira S ^a   Lobkovsky, Alexander E ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MICROBIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SYNTENY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MICROBIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; SYNTENY;

EID: 84991518136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.208     Document Type: Article

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